Re: Install Experiences

[Neal H Walfield]

> Hmmmm.... well, it didn't start up for me, and I waited a while.  Anyway,
> pfinet died later on after about 6 rlogin sessions.  The next day, I
> restarted pfinet (by simply pinging _from_ the machine).  However, rlogin
> didn't work (after a long wait, I got "connection refused" with
> nothing mentioned in the logs).  I thought maybe inetd needed to be
> restarted since pfinet had been restarted.  Anyway, I did that, and then
> trying to rlogin into the machine produced a host of messages saying:

Interesting.  I might look into this later.

> (default pager): dropping data_request because of prvious paging errors

Sounds like you do not have enough ram.

> Also note, that I don't have swap enabled at this time.

Yup.

> Anyway, just thought I'd let you know what all was happening.  Tell me if
> these kind of reports are helpful or annoying, or what could make them
> more helpful or less annoying.

You will find that the hurd will be _much_ more stable if you add swap.
Then, you will be able to get farther and help development there.
However, if you are really against swap for some reason (the hurd can page
to Linux swap BTW), then you could help by debugging the default pager.

-Neal

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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or neal@cs.uml.edu

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