Re: Bogus low-memory mode
Donald Allen, le Tue 28 May 2013 17:17:34 -0400, a écrit :
> I am attempting to install the Debian Gnu/Hurd release on circa 2005
> Thinkpad G41, 2 GB of memory and a 60 GB IDE disk. Early in the the
> process, I got a dire warning about insufficient memory, telling me
> that something like 393 MB of memory are required and that if I
> proceed, bad things are likely to happen.
Uh?
Could you switch to console 2, run vmstat-hurd and tell us the figures?
Could you also check at the beginning of /var/log/dmesg the "physical
memory from 0x0 to ..." figures?
> I realize that this project is very resource-constrained, but a bug
> like this on very standard hardware make me wonder how much testing
> was done prior to this "release".
A lot. Including systems with 2GiB RAM.
Samuel
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