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Date:      Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:12:27 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        archie@tribe.com (Archie Cobbs)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD in 5 megs?
Message-ID:  <199602150142.MAA19689@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199602141822.KAA17487@bubba.tribe.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Feb 14, 96 10:22:49 am

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Archie Cobbs stands accused of saying:
> 
> FreeBSD 2.1.0 should be able to run in 5 megs of memory, right?

Run?  I've run it in 2 (yecch, masochism value here 8)

>   Feb 14 10:11:35 mini /kernel: pid 5: sh: uid 0: exited on signal 11
>   Feb 14 10:11:35 mini init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally,

That _stinks_ of a memory/cache problem.

> My guess is that there's some hardware problem, but this has happened on
> a couple of different machines and I'd like to try to eliminate other
> possibilities as well.

Try turning any caching off for starters; you have a Cyrix processor of some
sort, and some of these are badly broken.

> Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com  *  Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com

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