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

Richard licai at pku.edu.cn
Fri Nov 15 03:13:37 CET 2013


Hi Albert, 
      Can the default menu.lst works to boot, without any modification?
      I have met this looping before, when I used a wrong GCC version and could not even run the default munu.lst. 

      You can try the specific GCC version which wiki.barrelfish.org recommends.
      Hope this helps.
Regards,
Richard

----- Albert Heinle <aheinle at uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>
>     
>
>
>     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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