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Re: How to activate swap?

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The ported memory architecture is a sad waste of a 32 bit microprocessor's potential. Only machines I've ever had where physical memory was greater than per process virtual memory.

On Monday, October 24, 2022 at 2:40:22 AM UTC-4, Alain Knaff wrote:
> Hi Jesse,
> On 24/10/2022 07:45, J Booth wrote: 
> 
> > Hi Alain. 
> > 
> >>> I conclude by this that only about 2.5MB are available in *total* 
> > So it hit me today, I recall seeing the memory map for the 4MB RAM address space (0x0 - 0x3FFFFF), and sure enough, only around 2.5 MB allocated to user processes: 
> > 
> > KERNEL ONLY = 00_00_00 – 07_FF_FF (512 KB) 
> > User Process = 08_00_00 – 2F_FF_FF (2.5 MB) 
> > Shared Lib = 30_00_00 – 37_FF_FF (512 KB)
> Yes, I have figured this out since then
> > Kernel VM = 38_00_00 – 3F_FF_FF (512 KB)
> That bit I didn't know yet. As far as I know, Linux does the same (i.e. 
> the kernel exists in the application's address space, even though 
> inaccessible to the application, obviously)
> > 
> > So I don't think increasing swap is going to help much given the limited address space.
> Actually, the problem that I used to have was running "many" *processes* 
> concurrently. 
> 
> When configuring a software package using GNU autoconf, at some point in 
> time there's a multi-step pipeline and each step implies needs an 
> additional shell process. With ksh or bash (containing a full load of 
> config variables), and just 3 or 4 steps of pipeline, this was enough to 
> run out of VM. Adding more swap resolved the issue. Back then, I did add 
> more swap "the hard way" by re-installing from floppies and choosing 
> more swap at the appropriate step. But nowadays, I just use dgesswein's 
> s4vol tool 
> Next challenge is to get gcc-3.3.6 (running on UnixPC) to compile a 
> program longer than a simple hello-world. It runs out of memory pretty 
> quickly, and as this is one process, swap does not help that use case. 
> 
> > 
> > Jesse 
> > 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> Alain

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How to activate swap? Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> - 2022-05-26 19:48 +0000
  Re: How to activate swap? J Booth <166sunny@gmail.com> - 2022-10-23 22:45 -0700
    Re: How to activate swap? Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> - 2022-10-24 08:40 +0200
      Re: How to activate swap? Peter Schmidt <peter@transcend.aero> - 2022-10-24 04:19 -0700
        Re: How to activate swap? J Booth <166sunny@gmail.com> - 2022-10-24 11:06 -0700
          Re: How to activate swap? Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> - 2022-10-24 22:07 +0200
      Re: How to activate swap? J Booth <166sunny@gmail.com> - 2022-10-24 11:27 -0700
        Re: How to activate swap? J Booth <166sunny@gmail.com> - 2022-10-24 12:20 -0700
        Re: How to activate swap? Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> - 2022-10-24 22:47 +0200

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