Re: [coLinux-devel] coLinux 0.5.3

[Richard G. <ric...@ri...>]

On my system with 1GB if I set memory size=128 coLinux fails to load with
a -1. If I drop it back to 96, it seems to work fine. How to troubleshoot?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Aloni" <da...@gm...>
To: "Cooperative Linux Development" <col...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 2:00 PM
Subject: [coLinux-devel] coLinux 0.5.3


> Saturday again, time for a new release.
>
> * Version 0.5.3 AKA "Valentine release"
>   * Virtual CMOS system time is now passed to Linux, you no longer
>     need to update the time using ntp on boot. Note that the virtual CMOS
>     time is GMT, so the coLinux machine needs to set its own timezone.
>   * cobd's devfs support was added to the Linux patch. Gentoo would work
>     now (based on a patch from Pat Erley).
>     A Gentoo root filesystem was created and released by Pat Erley.
>   * Fixed an unwanted termination that was discovered when devfs was
compiled
>     in to the kernel.
>   * Fixed an issue with mxml and the passage of boot parameters.
>   * colinux-console: Fixed the CPU utilization issue.
>   * colinux-console: Escape doesn't close the window now.
>   * coLinux RAM is configurable, using a memory element in the XML under
>     <colinux>, like: <memory size="64"></memory>. Minimum is 8MB, maximum
is 192MB.
>     WARNING: high values might destabilize Windows, because the memory is
>     allocated from the non-cached pool which has a maximum of 256MB
system-wide,
>     meaning there's less left for Windows drivers and subsystems.
>   * bin/cobuild.sh: Thomas Fritzsche contributed this script which
>     automates the creation of a cross compilation cygwin environment
>     on Linux.
>
> NOTE:
>
> I tested the configurable RAM option on my Windows machine, which
> has 256MB of physical RAM. It worked with 64MB, and even 128MB, i.e,
> half! Now that's cooperative. Of course, Windows' performance was
> affected because it had less crash.
>
> And KDE ran much faster.
>
> I'm suspecting that Windows and its drivers aren't using much of that
> memory pool (like 10MB or so), so you can freely use amounts like 128MB,
> especially if your boxes have a lot of RAM to compensate.
>
> -- 
> Dan Aloni
> da...@gm...
>
>
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