[9fans] not enough memory with fossil+venti standard setup

2010-01-30 Thread jorge
Hello! after a long term my interest in Plan9 received new input by Tim Newsham's ninefs. My current employee forces me to use computing infrastructure based on Microsoft Operating systems. With ninefs i hope to be able to use a fossil+venti fileserver instead of our ubiquitous project SHARE.

Re: [9fans] not enough memory with fossil+venti standard setup

2010-01-30 Thread Steve Simon
It may be of interes, I run plan9 in an almost pure windows shop, I have written aux/cifs a windows file server protocl client which allows me to mount DFS shares on our company server. I also have a couple of tools which allow me to connect to a windows PC running a service I have written, this

Re: [9fans] vmware fusion 3.0.1 and VESA

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Newsham
hangs the virtual machine. The biggest screen size I can get to, without VESA, is monitor=multisync135 vgasize=1024x768x32 and anything bigger causes kernel panic. See http://9fans.net/archive/2009/08/627 What monitor/vgasize combination works for you, preferably bigger one than above? I

Re: [9fans] not enough memory with fossil+venti standard setup

2010-01-30 Thread Federico G. Benavento
yes, the venti thing was just weird, I installed Plan 9 last week or so in vmware and venti was using 700MB ram, the vm had only 512MB... what's with venti? -- Federico G. Benavento

Re: [9fans] not enough memory with fossil+venti standard setup

2010-01-30 Thread ron minnich
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Federico G. Benavento benave...@gmail.com wrote: yes, the venti thing was just weird, I installed Plan 9 last week or so in vmware and venti was using 700MB ram, the vm had only 512MB... what's with venti? you really need to tell venti something about how

[9fans] Coraid funded

2010-01-30 Thread Brantley Coile
I just want to share with the list that we have announced that Coraid, the largest distributor of Plan 9 systems in the world, has accepted some serious venture funding. See the link below for a short interview with our new CEO. Kevin and I hit it off right away. Our use of Plan 9 was fully

Re: [9fans] Coraid funded

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Newsham
Oh, and by the way, we need more people. Send resumes please. Any of you google guys board with a huge company yet? :) Congratulations! I'm somewhat interested in what you guys are doing, but also on the opposite side of the country and unable to relocate. Do you guys ever farm out work or

Re: [9fans] Coraid funded

2010-01-30 Thread erik quanstrom
Oh, and by the way, we need more people. Send resumes please. Any of you google guys board with a huge company yet? :) email hir...@coraid.com - erik

Re: [9fans] Acme permission problems

2010-01-30 Thread erik quanstrom
Essentially starting Abaco in acme gives: Abaco: Can't open display: initdisplay: /dev/draw/new: '/dev/draw/new': permisson denied But i don't get it when i start it from a normal 9term unfortuantely, you can't do that. you can start abaco in a new window, however. - erik

Re: [9fans] Coraid funded

2010-01-30 Thread Eric Van Hensbergen
Congrats Brantley - this is great news! -Eric Sent from my iPhone On Jan 30, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Brantley Coile brant...@coraid.com wrote: I just want to share with the list that we have announced that Coraid, the largest distributor of Plan 9 systems in the world, has accepted some

Re: [9fans] Coraid funded

2010-01-30 Thread Don Bailey
Wow, that is really awesome. Congrats, indeed! D On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Brantley Coile brant...@coraid.com wrote: I just want to share with the list that we have announced that Coraid, the largest distributor of Plan 9 systems in the world, has accepted some serious venture

Re: [9fans] Coraid funded

2010-01-30 Thread Nick LaForge
Congratulations on this exciting news! -- A 9fan grateful for the public benefit already generated from Coraid's technology and code.

Re: [9fans] Coraid funded

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Newsham
oops, that wasnt supposed to go to 9fans.. sorry guys. On Sat, 30 Jan 2010, Tim Newsham wrote: Oh, and by the way, we need more people. Send resumes please. Any of you google guys board with a huge company yet? :) Congratulations! I'm somewhat interested in what you guys are doing, Tim

[9fans] entire cache is busy, 999 dirty

2010-01-30 Thread Kenji Arisawa
Hello 9fans, Latterly my file server speaks annoying kernel message such as: entire cache is busy, 999 dirty -- waking flush thread cache is okay again entire cache is busy, 999 dirty -- waking flush thread cache is okay again ... My question is: (a) where these messages come from? venti? (b)

Re: [9fans] Coraid funded

2010-01-30 Thread Matt Adams
To the Coraid team: Congrats on your recent funding - your efforts to improve and enhance Plan 9 are obvious throughout the community. Cheers, Matt

[9fans] 'win' execution behaviour in acme

2010-01-30 Thread Akshat Kumar
Executing this block of text: win -e cmd1 args ... win -e cmd2 args ... win -e cmd3 args ... win -e cmd4 args ... opens up *one* acme window with the first of the `win' commands. Once you `Del' that win, the second one appears, and so forth. But the behaviour I would expect is that I get four

Re: [9fans] 'win' execution behaviour in acme

2010-01-30 Thread Tony Lainson
Put an '' on the end of each line?

Re: [9fans] 'win' execution behaviour in acme

2010-01-30 Thread Akshat Kumar
OK, yeah. I lost myself in the complexities of empty-headed programming. Thanks much, ak On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Tony Lainson t.lain...@gmail.com wrote: Put an '' on the end of each line?