Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:23:52 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urge to apply the vn device hack even to 2.2.5 Message-ID: <19971021082352.19021@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <19971021075322.GK58851@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Oct 10, 1997 at 07:53:22AM %2B0200 References: <19971021003621.XE33370@uriah.heep.sax.de> <15920.877390482@time.cdrom.com> <19971021075322.GK58851@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Oct 10, 1997 at 07:53:22AM +0200, J Wunsch wrote: > 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. Hey, I still have a 4MB 386/20 running 2.2-960612-SNAP in production as a firewall machine. It works just fine, except for those pesky "sleep(5) after select" messages from telnet when it gets swapped out. Don't forget the little machines that do a lot of the dirty work. -- Jonathan
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