[Barrelfish-users] Limitation about file-system size or number of programs in menu.lst?

[Albert Heinle]

Oh, and just to clearify: I do not mean that my program is all the time 
looping. To see what I mean, I will give you my shell output.

Cheers,

Albert Heinle

  Booting 'Barrelfish'

root (nd)
  Filesystem type is tftp, using whole disk
kernel /x86_64/sbin/elver loglevel=4
    [Multiboot-elf, <0x100000:0x2560:0x0>, <0x103fe4:0x1c:0x6000>, 
shtab=0x10a2f
8, entry=0x10000c]
module /x86_64/sbin/cpu loglevel=4
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x116000, 0xde4b9 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/init
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x1f5000, 0x4cf4b9 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/mem_serv
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x6c5000, 0x47f7fd bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/monitor
    [Multiboot-module @ 0xb45000, 0x6b0bf9 bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/ramfsd boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x11f6000, 0x51d348 bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/skb boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x1714000, 0xb6c33c bytes]
modulenounzip /skb_ramfs.cpio.gz nospawn
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x2281000, 0x9f9f8 bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/kaluga boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x2321000, 0x893e6a bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/acpi boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x2bb5000, 0x7dd7d9 bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/spawnd boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x3393000, 0x7e6f7f bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/startd boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x3b7a000, 0x76bb24 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/routing_setup boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x42e6000, 0x4d32e2 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/pci auto
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x47ba000, 0x63d758 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/ahcid auto
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x4df8000, 0x56d76d bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/rtl8029 auto
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x5366000, 0x57f15d bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/e1000n auto
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x58e6000, 0x6153f2 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/NGD_mng auto
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x5efc000, 0x509f01 bytes]
   Booting 'Barrelfish'

root (nd)
  Filesystem type is tftp, using whole disk
kernel /x86_64/sbin/elver loglevel=4
    [Multiboot-elf, <0x100000:0x2560:0x0>, <0x103fe4:0x1c:0x6000>, 
shtab=0x10a2f
8, entry=0x10000c]
module /x86_64/sbin/cpu loglevel=4
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x116000, 0xde4b9 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/init
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x1f5000, 0x4cf4b9 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/mem_serv
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x6c5000, 0x47f7fd bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/monitor
    [Multiboot-module @ 0xb45000, 0x6b0bf9 bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/ramfsd boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x11f6000, 0x51d348 bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/skb boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x1714000, 0xb6c33c bytes]
modulenounzip /skb_ramfs.cpio.gz nospawn
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x2281000, 0x9f9f8 bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/kaluga boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x2321000, 0x893e6a bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/acpi boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x2bb5000, 0x7dd7d9 bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/spawnd boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x3393000, 0x7e6f7f bytes]
module  /x86_64/sbin/startd boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x3b7a000, 0x76bb24 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/routing_setup boot
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x42e6000, 0x4d32e2 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/pci auto
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x47ba000, 0x63d758 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/ahcid auto
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x4df8000, 0x56d76d bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/rtl8029 auto
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x5366000, 0x57f15d bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/e1000n auto
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x58e6000, 0x6153f2 bytes]
module /x86_64/sbin/NGD_mng auto
    [Multiboot-module @ 0x5efc000, 0x509f01 bytes]
   Booting 'Barrelfish'

and again root(nd)[...]

On 14.11.2013 11:52, Albert Heinle wrote:
> Hello Barrelfish-Team,
>
> I am right now working at a project at my university, and I was 
> writing code to handle a bunch of files (gutenberg project books).
>
> I included the books as described here: 
> https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/barrelfish-users/2012-November/000842.html
> A creation of several cpio files was needed. There seems to be a size 
> limitation on those guys. But no problem, I just split them and add 
> them seperately. In total, those files are about 80MB.
>
> Now I have my program that searches through those files. It is 
> designed so that several instances of it can be started, and all are 
> searching in parallel through the files. If I add now more than 3 
> instances in menu.lst, Barrelfish ends up being in an infinite loop at 
> startup, which always restarts after the last chunk of gutenberg 
> files. I assume that there is some limitation on the size there, but 
> also adding more RAM and increasing the disk size in the 
> symbolic_targets.mk does not help.
>
> Does anyone has an idea about a possible solution?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Albert Heinle
>
>
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