On Wed, 1 Jul 1998 jaharkes_at_cs.cmu.edu wrote:

> 
> > Hi Jan!
> > 
> > > - What is the rvm data file size you tried to create.
> > 
> > I took one of the choices offered by vice-setup; 90M.
> >  
> > > - How much physical memory does your system have.
> > 
> > The libc-5.4.44 box has 64M of physical memory.
> > The glibc box has 32M of physical memory.
> > 
> > > - How much swap memory.
> > 
> > The libc5 box has 20M of swap.
> > The glibc box has 60M of swap.
> > 
> 
> An in-memory copy is made of the RVM data file. So you initially might like
> to try a smaller rvm size (44M for the libc5 box, 22M for the glibc box).

Ok, after your first message I put 2+2 together and realized that I was
simply short on VM.  After doubling the size of the swap partition on the
glibc box, it worked as it should.  The installation guide MUST explain
clearly explain the VM constraint, BTW.  The need for VM >= data partition
size is by no means intuitive.

At any rate, I'm up and running over 100Mb ethernet.  The transaction
latency for creating/removing individual files is still quite high - much
more noticable than for NFS over the same link.  No problems to this
point, but a full kernel compile usually breaks things quickly <g>.

Thanks for the hints!

Steve