Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 09:02:36 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2.1R NFS and FTP load problem - More Info Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970408090228.00694a84@etinc.com>
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At 04:39 PM 4/7/97 -0700, David Greenman wrote: >>At 08:51 PM 4/7/97 +0200, you wrote: >>>On Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 01:32:09PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: >>>> > >That's odd.. I had no problems installing 2.2R or 2.2.1R over NFS >>with an >>>> > >old ISA-only 486 with 8MB of RAM. >>>> > >>>> > Since there seems to be widespread doubt about this conclusion, >>>> > if someone can get me a boot disk with some diagnostics for >>>> > memory usage I'd be more than happy to try to track this down (as >>>> > its no doubt going to bite me in the future)....theres a limited amount >>>> > of info that I can gather with the install disk unfortunatly..... >> >>Well, the machine with 8 meg of RAM seems to work OK when I do a >>full developer load (sources), but fails on the "kernel developer" >>selection. Could there be a bug there? Its a total pig when loading >>the ports.....the throughput drops to like 5Kb and the disk sounds like >>a choo-choo..... > > The ports tree is escentially a few thousand directories, and the blocks >for those are written out to disk syncronously (although the filesystem is >mounted async). > I don't know why you're seeing a failure. Perhaps you could try doing a >"ps" in the "emergency holographic shell"? The system completely hangs...so theres no chance to check anything (kbd locks, pings to the machine fail, etc....... Dennis
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