From f772816c588bd40132079dde30cf2e8e2122b7e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 15:11:02 +0100 Subject: hurd/running/debian/faq/512_mib_ram_limit: Split out. Written by Michael Banck. --- hurd/running/debian/faq.mdwn | 10 ---------- hurd/running/debian/faq/512_mib_ram_limit.mdwn | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) create mode 100644 hurd/running/debian/faq/512_mib_ram_limit.mdwn (limited to 'hurd') diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/faq.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/faq.mdwn index 1892d63f..8c410756 100644 --- a/hurd/running/debian/faq.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/debian/faq.mdwn @@ -47,16 +47,6 @@ Run `vmstat` to see memory and swap usage. # Translators -# 512 MiB RAM Limit - -GNU Mach does not cope well with lots of memory. Newer versions of the Debian -`gnumach` package will limit themselves to around 1 GiB of memory. If you have -an older version, or still experience problems with `vmstat` (see above) -reported much less memory than you have, the best is to limit the memory it can -see via GRUB's `upppermem` feature. Add `uppermem 786432` to GRUB's Hurd entry -in `menu.lst`. - -This should be fixed. # `xserver-common` diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/faq/512_mib_ram_limit.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/faq/512_mib_ram_limit.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ea54fe5f --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/running/debian/faq/512_mib_ram_limit.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]] + +# 512 MiB RAM Limit + +GNU Mach does not cope well with lots of memory. Newer versions of the Debian +`gnumach` package will limit themselves to around 1 GiB of memory. If you have +an older version, or still experience problems with `vmstat` (see above) +reported much less memory than you have, the best is to limit the memory it can +see via GRUB's `upppermem` feature. Add `uppermem 786432` to GRUB's Hurd entry +in `menu.lst`. -- cgit v1.2.3