Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 07:53:22 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urge to apply the vn device hack even to 2.2.5 Message-ID: <19971021075322.GK58851@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <15920.877390482@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Oct 20, 1997 16:34:42 -0700 References: <19971021003621.XE33370@uriah.heep.sax.de> <15920.877390482@time.cdrom.com>
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > ... (and current.freebsd.org is another 128MB box - > maybe we should make our release-a-day server a 486SX with 8MB of > memory and switch it to being a release-a-week server instead. > We'd not have as useful a service by far, but it sure would catch > those load sensitive bugs early. :-) I was already contemplating to donate my 5 MB 386/16 notebook to John Dyson for development work on low-memory machines. :-)) Background: Bruce yesterday wrote me that the zone memory allocator allocates 256 KB of static memory. This is pretty (too) much on a 5 MB machine. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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