Re: [Gems-users] Having trouble getting LogTM running

["Jim Leek" <jrleek@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Dan Gibson <degibson@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Installation of the OS can take a LONG LONG time to run. Having 32
processors and 64 GB of memory will only slow things down. If you're
concerned about excess runtime, I'd recommend trying to make a 2-8
processor checkpoint with 4 GB of RAM (I believe the LogTM papers used
machines with 4 GB, though an author might correct me on that).

64GB of RAM did seem excessive, but I didn't find how much RAM was used in the papers I read.  I guess I'll try another install  as you suggest.  I have to processors on this machine, so I don't think it should be a problem to run another run of the script on a smaller target.

How long is a LONG time?  How many days are we talking about here?  I would have expected, at the very least, some sort of progress bar from Solaris.  I haven't seen any new output in 13 hours, but I've also never installed Solaris before, so maybe that's normal?

Jim