>> Besides the obvious "buy more RAM", do you guys >> have any suggestions for reducing memory use? I have run Plan 9 on >> machines with 32 MB in the last few years so I presume this must have >> something to do with the size of the file systems--correct? > > venti(8) has a very good discussion of memory usage and how to tune it. > But there doesn't seem to be any way of displaying the memory usage of a > running venti so it's going to take some trial and error to come up with > the right values. > > --lyndon
I tried setting mem, bcmem, and icmem all to 1M but no improvement. They are not set by default, and trying the configuration shown in the man page actually prevents the system from booting (out of memory). John
