> Hi all, > > I've booted and installed nv_70 on a 256mb system with about 512mb of > swap and it worked fine. I'm told these days that ttinstall needs > 384mb, (as of nv_73, was it?) but haven't tried this myself.
I have tried various pxe-boot incantations as well as booting via CDROM without much success below the 512MB waterline. I may be doing something wrong but the x86 miniroot image simply will not fit into available memory. > On the same 256mb system, I've had /terrible/ trouble trying to get > Indiana to install, with no luck so far. Same here. No way no go. > I was remotely displaying the installer gui (so I didn't have to run X > locally) and I was able to kick off the install. good move. It has been a while since I tried that and I feel that is cheating anyways because someone in the backwoods with an older PC or Laptop won't have a remote X-terminal anyways. > I found that the machine gets about 200mb into copying the large cpio > archive onto the zpool before the machine starts swapping heavily, I've > even left it overnight on a few occasions, to no avail. As Alan Hargreaves said "there really is no replacement for real memory". > I then started trying to tune the system a little bit, reducing the > number of zio threads, which actually helped a bit believe it or not - > I got 400mb of data from the cpio file before the machine started > thrashing about. Limiting the arc doesn't help, because the tuning code > only accepts "sane" values, 64mb and upwards - at the machine's busiest > during the install, I observed the arc only using about 18mb. > > I was in touch with Roch from PAE to see if there was other ways to > limit ZFS's memory usage, but the zfs code changes he sent me which I > compiled didn't seem to limit things very much on such a small system, > some slight improvements, but nothing radical. > I'm beginning to wonder about the value of targetting small systems. Isn't everything being sold today shipping with 1GB RAM minimal ? Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
