Subject: Re: MicroVax II with 5 Mb of memory occasionally hangs
To: None <buckel@wmad95.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/12/1999 10:30:02
At 11:38 AM 7/12/99 +0200, Bernard wrote:
>Well, I run a VS2000 with 14MB RAM which is the maximum. I don't think
>that a kernel will compile without swapping <SIGH>. I'll try this
>today, anyway.

Do you run with local disks or with NFS mounted disks? 

>Hmmm - one might guess that Doug's MV with 5 MB will be pretty useless
>until this is fixed :-(

Yup.

>    Chuck> offs) Ragge has a couple of bug fixes in -current that
>    Chuck> might help.
>
>Does this mean that the kernels at subzero don't show this nasty
>behaviour or do I have to get the -current sources and try to compile
>them without swap?

Presumably, but I've not seen an offical statement from Ragge yet that the
changes to the pagedaemon code and the vm mapping are in his current
builds. You can snapshot the kernel tree and build the kernel but be aware
that you will probably lose userland stuff (ps, etc) that depend on the
kernel structures.

--Chuck