Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-17 Thread John Floren
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 10:30 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sat Aug 18 01:04:53 EDT 2012, aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp wrote: >> Helo, >> >> Plan 9 manual FOSSIL(4) says about fossil/fossil command option -m: >> -m Allocate free-memory-percent percent of the avail- >>

Re: [9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-17 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Aug 18 01:04:53 EDT 2012, aris...@ar.aichi-u.ac.jp 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 >

Re: [9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

2012-08-17 Thread andrey mirtchovski
> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397390 I like presotto's comment.

[9fans] fossil option -m

2012-08-17 Thread arisawa
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

[9fans] It seems Plan 9 is on Hacker News

2012-08-17 Thread Matthew Veety
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397390 For what it's worth, our beloved operating system is on Hacker News. -- Veety

Re: [9fans] Release CD-ROM won't boot

2012-08-17 Thread erik quanstrom
> I'm 1300 km aways from the server, incidentally. the not-so-virtual virtual machine? - erik

Re: [9fans] Release CD-ROM won't boot

2012-08-17 Thread Lucio De Re
> I suggest not using VMware for the installation, but Virtual Box > https://www.virtualbox.org/ instead; I've had no issues with > installation, and it can be configured quickly. You missed the bit about being 1400 km from the host :-) I'm not sure about SCSI disk errors that seem to be popping u

Re: [9fans] Release CD-ROM won't boot

2012-08-17 Thread iainws
On Friday, 17 August 2012 20:30:47 UTC+10, Lucio De Re wrote: > I haven't checked all possibilities, but perhaps someone here has a > > quick fix. > > > > I'm trying to boot a Plan 9 ISO image from a few weeks back (date > > indeterminate, right now) under VMware ESXi, but it seems to jam at

[9fans] Release CD-ROM won't boot

2012-08-17 Thread Lucio De Re
I haven't checked all possibilities, but perhaps someone here has a quick fix. I'm trying to boot a Plan 9 ISO image from a few weeks back (date indeterminate, right now) under VMware ESXi, but it seems to jam at the "PBSR...I" prompt (text cursor on the following line). I tried both the primary

Re: [9fans] Multi-dimensional filesystem

2012-08-17 Thread Lucio De Re
> The > "getting dot-dot right" is precisely the problem that there are > multiple paths, and only one is valid for a classical dir tree and > you got to follow this one correct path back. Here, this multiplicity > is simultaneously valid, and all the paths are the correct answer. The question her