Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 10:36:08 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.pp.ru> To: Matt Penna <mdp1261@ritvax.rit.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Memory Requirements Legacy and Present Message-ID: <20020119103608.A488@grosbein.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020118130619.01d954f0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu>; from mdp1261@ritvax.rit.edu on Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:51:57PM -0500 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020117210634.01d8eec0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu> <3C47AE08.24F97802@www.kuzbass.ru> <5.1.0.14.2.20020118130619.01d954f0@vmspop.isc.rit.edu>
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:51:57PM -0500, Matt Penna wrote: > The allocation of swap space during the install is a great bit of > information I didn't have previously, so I'll be sure to mention that in my > revisions. You mention that an install will succeed with 8MB and some swap > - will it work with less physical memory as long as swap is allocated? If > you don't know the answer, no problem; It definitly will not work with 4Mb and I don't know where dead line lies. > I can simply try it out when I have > easy access to a low-memory machine. (I just moved to a new house and a lot > of my hardware is not here yet.) Well, if you have good hardware running FreeBSD you can easily make experiments emulating memory-stressed situations. Just grab kernel configuration for install floppy, add options MAXMEM=5*1024 The boot floppy will use only 5Mb of RAM then. Rebuild install floppies then and try to boot and see if it will be possible to activate swap before die :-) Apparently, it won't work if you can't proceed to swap activation. At the other hand, it will be nesessary to try complete installation with real old hardware when you'll find 'dead threshold'. Eugene Grosbein To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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