On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:30 PM, erik quanstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat Aug 18 01:04:53 EDT 2012, [email protected] wrote: >> Helo, >> >> Plan 9 manual FOSSIL(4) says about fossil/fossil command option -m: >> -m Allocate free-memory-percent percent of the avail- >> able free RAM for buffers. This overrides all other >> memory sizing parameters, notably the -c option to >> open. >> How to give memory, for example 25%, to fossil in starting 9pcf or 9pccpuf >> kernel? >> I think the value should be enabled to be given in plan9.ini, but I couldn't >> find in the manual PLAN9.INI(8). > > if you're using standard plan 9 boot stuff, you'll need to hack boot/local.c > right under the /* start fossil */ comment, or fossil itself. personally, > i'd lean > toward adding an environment variable which could be put into plan9.ini > and be the equivalent of -m. > > - erik >
You can also use a boot.fs kernel, so you can define the startup in an rc script. Very convenient, I used it to set up our cpu/auth/fileserver to use a Coraid AoE device for Venti. John
