danny@itm.UUCP (Danny) (05/14/85)
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Well, we did our darndest this Saturday to bring XELOS up, and get
the conversion done. Brent and I worked from 9:00 AM Saturday to 11:00
PM, and then from about 1:00 PM Sunday to 5:00 PM. Along about 3:30
Sunday afternoon, after doing everything we knew to do, We officially
declared that we couldn't run XELOS at that time. You see, we had run
out of swap space. We changed our conf file to use all of the 13 Meg
removable platter as swap, remade XELOS, and tried again. It still
ran out of swap. So, we booted edition7, put everything back to normal,
or as close to normal as things get around here.
But, there is hope yet. In his conversation with John Wilsterman
Monday, Brent found that XELOS behaves rationally. In edition7, one had
only to specify the swap device in the conf table, and it would be
compiled into the kernel. Apparently, under XELOS, changing the conf
table just changes the "mknod.sh" file "config" produces. This shell
script is run to make the "special" files in /dev. If a file already
exists, mknod prints an error message, and ignores the request. So,
when we moved the swap device to the removable platter, *more than
likely*, mknod didn't change the major and minor device numbers of
"/dev/swap". I say "more than likely" because we haven't had a chance
to try it yet.
So, all youse guys beware. Insure that you have enough swap space,
and MAKE SURE that swap is where you think it is. Also, in an article
posted earlier to this newsgroup, Carl Swail noted that many XELOS programs
have the sticky bit set. This, too, will eat up swap. Thanks,
Carl! By the way, where was that message Friday?
We'll give it another shot this weekend. Stay tuned for more
exciting episodes in the life of George Whistlefinger, Master of
Tiddly Winks, and President of SOCPD (Stamp Out Cabbage Patch Dolls);
same Bat time, same Bat channel (did I write that?).
Danny
(pesnta!itm!danny)
"It is better to light one small candle in the dark,
Than to get all hot, bothered, and frustrated
Trying to light a grape."
-- Proverb of Ghengis Kahns' step-father's maid's son
--
Daniel S. Cox
({siesmo!gatech|ihnp4!akgua}!itm!danny)