kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (John Kellow) (04/06/89)
I just recently acquired the Perl program posted to comp.sources.unix last year. Everything compiled okay, but the test scripts don't work, I get a core dump. The README file says that Perl probably won't work on machines with a small address space. Now my question: Just how small is small? I have a SYSV.2 machine(68010 based) with 1.5M of physical memory and a 3.0M virtual address space, is this sufficient? Has anyone ran Perl on a similar machine? Please let me know if you have. Thanks John Kellow kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu
lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (04/06/89)
In article <658@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (John Kellow) writes:
: I just recently acquired the Perl program posted to comp.sources.unix
: last year. Everything compiled okay, but the test scripts don't work, I
: get a core dump. The README file says that Perl probably won't work
: on machines with a small address space. Now my question: Just how small
: is small? I have a SYSV.2 machine(68010 based) with 1.5M of physical memory
: and a 3.0M virtual address space, is this sufficient? Has anyone ran Perl
: on a similar machine? Please let me know if you have. Thanks
Small is something like a PDP-11, having only 128 K. Perl should work fine
on your 68010.
It looks to me like you are simply running an unpatched perl. You can ftp
the patches from jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.8.43), or I can mail them
to you. Or you can ftp the patched kits.
Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.govallbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) (04/12/89)
As quoted from <658@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu> by kellow@ndcheg.cheg.nd.edu (John Kellow): +--------------- | get a core dump. The README file says that Perl probably won't work | on machines with a small address space. Now my question: Just how small | is small? I have a SYSV.2 machine(68010 based) with 1.5M of physical memory | and a 3.0M virtual address space, is this sufficient? Has anyone ran Perl +--------------- 3B1, I presume.... ;-) I've got perl up on ncoast; aside from a few compiler bugs that had to be worked around, it works fine -- if agonizingly slow. Ncoast has 2MB of physical memory, 1.7MB of which is available to user processes (System III; no demand paging). The comment about small address spaces applies primarily to 80286 Unix/Xenix boxes; Perl can manipulate objects of size > 64K, so segments are a lossage. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@<backbone> NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser