Subject: Re: R140 w/8 MB and multiuser
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Ian Fry <Ian.Fry@sophos.com>
List: port-arm26
Date: 07/02/2001 09:37:03
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 01:34:17PM +0100, Ben Harris wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Kjetil B. Thomassen wrote:
> > > > Ian Fry made a kernel that is trying to save space so that he can boot
> > > > on his 4 MB computer, but that did not get any further than starting
> > > > cron (or was it updating motd),
> > > Did it panic, or just hang?
> > It just hang there doing nothing. There was no activity on the network
> > at all.
> OK.  That fits with my experience of what happens when the system either
> runs out of VM or starts trying to swap.

Yes, that's what I see too. Pressing Ctrl+T when there is no activity usually
reports being in 'uvm_get', IIRC.

Ian.