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| 22 | <a href="./Home">MLton 20180207</a>\r | |
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| 26 | <h1>RunningOnNetBSD</h1>\r | |
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| 29 | <div id="preamble">\r | |
| 30 | <div class="sectionbody">\r | |
| 31 | <div class="paragraph"><p>MLton runs fine on <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a>.</p></div>\r | |
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| 34 | <div class="sect1">\r | |
| 35 | <h2 id="_installing_the_correct_packages_for_netbsd">Installing the correct packages for NetBSD</h2>\r | |
| 36 | <div class="sectionbody">\r | |
| 37 | <div class="paragraph"><p>The NetBSD system installs 3rd party packages by a mechanism known as\r | |
| 38 | pkgsrc. This is a tree of Makefiles which when invoked downloads the\r | |
| 39 | source code, builds a package and installs it on the system. In order\r | |
| 40 | to run MLton on NetBSD, you will have to install several packages for\r | |
| 41 | it to work:</p></div>\r | |
| 42 | <div class="ulist"><ul>\r | |
| 43 | <li>\r | |
| 44 | <p>\r | |
| 45 | <span class="monospaced">shells/bash</span>\r | |
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| 48 | <li>\r | |
| 49 | <p>\r | |
| 50 | <span class="monospaced">devel/gmp</span>\r | |
| 51 | </p>\r | |
| 52 | </li>\r | |
| 53 | <li>\r | |
| 54 | <p>\r | |
| 55 | <span class="monospaced">devel/gmake</span>\r | |
| 56 | </p>\r | |
| 57 | </li>\r | |
| 58 | </ul></div>\r | |
| 59 | <div class="paragraph"><p>In order to get graphical call-graphs of profiling information, you\r | |
| 60 | will need the additional package</p></div>\r | |
| 61 | <div class="ulist"><ul>\r | |
| 62 | <li>\r | |
| 63 | <p>\r | |
| 64 | <span class="monospaced">graphics/graphviz</span>\r | |
| 65 | </p>\r | |
| 66 | </li>\r | |
| 67 | </ul></div>\r | |
| 68 | <div class="paragraph"><p>To build the documentation for MLton, you will need the addtional\r | |
| 69 | package</p></div>\r | |
| 70 | <div class="ulist"><ul>\r | |
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| 72 | <p>\r | |
| 73 | <span class="monospaced">textproc/asciidoc</span>.\r | |
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| 78 | </div>\r | |
| 79 | <div class="sect1">\r | |
| 80 | <h2 id="_tips_for_compiling_and_using_mlton_on_netbsd">Tips for compiling and using MLton on NetBSD</h2>\r | |
| 81 | <div class="sectionbody">\r | |
| 82 | <div class="paragraph"><p>MLton can be a memory-hog on computers with little memory. While\r | |
| 83 | 640Mb of RAM ought to be enough to self-compile MLton one might want\r | |
| 84 | to do some tuning to the NetBSD VM subsystem in order to succeed. The\r | |
| 85 | notes presented here is what <a href="JesperLouisAndersen">JesperLouisAndersen</a> uses for\r | |
| 86 | compiling MLton on his laptop.</p></div>\r | |
| 87 | <div class="sect2">\r | |
| 88 | <h3 id="_the_netbsd_vm_subsystem">The NetBSD VM subsystem</h3>\r | |
| 89 | <div class="paragraph"><p>NetBSD uses a VM subsystem named\r | |
| 90 | <a href="http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/chuck/tech/uvm/">UVM</a>.\r | |
| 91 | <a href="http://www.selonen.org/arto/netbsd/vm_tune.html">Tuning the VM system</a>\r | |
| 92 | can be done via the <span class="monospaced">sysctl(8)</span>-interface with the "VM" MIB set.</p></div>\r | |
| 93 | </div>\r | |
| 94 | <div class="sect2">\r | |
| 95 | <h3 id="_tuning_the_netbsd_vm_subsystem_for_mlton">Tuning the NetBSD VM subsystem for MLton</h3>\r | |
| 96 | <div class="paragraph"><p>MLton uses a lot of anonymous pages when it is running. Thus, we will\r | |
| 97 | need to tune up the default of 80 for anonymous pages. Setting</p></div>\r | |
| 98 | <div class="listingblock">\r | |
| 99 | <div class="content monospaced">\r | |
| 100 | <pre>sysctl -w vm.anonmax=95\r | |
| 101 | sysctl -w vm.anonmin=50\r | |
| 102 | sysctl -w vm.filemin=2\r | |
| 103 | sysctl -w vm.execmin=2\r | |
| 104 | sysctl -w vm.filemax=4\r | |
| 105 | sysctl -w vm.execmax=4</pre>\r | |
| 106 | </div></div>\r | |
| 107 | <div class="paragraph"><p>makes it less likely for the VM system to swap out anonymous pages.\r | |
| 108 | For a full explanation of the above flags, see the documentation.</p></div>\r | |
| 109 | <div class="paragraph"><p>The result is that my laptop goes from a MLton compile where it swaps\r | |
| 110 | a lot to a MLton compile with no swapping.</p></div>\r | |
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