Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:05:06 +0200 From: Leonidas Tsampros <ltsampros@upnet.gr> To: Pranav Peshwe <pranavpeshwe@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD run on an Intel Pentium II with 32MB RAM ?? Message-ID: <20060202070506.GA7209@bifteki.lan> In-Reply-To: <cdfd7d6d0602012216l4b9a7744y4f79f75dd8b5cc5@mail.gmail.com> References: <cdfd7d6d0602012216l4b9a7744y4f79f75dd8b5cc5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:46:48AM +0530, Pranav Peshwe wrote: > Hello, > I have a machine with an Intel Pentium II processor and 32 MB > of RAM.Will i be able to run FreeBSD 5.4 on it ? > I want to use that machine for a very limited purpose i.e as > a host providing the debugging environment for another machine.I want > this P II machine for debugging the kernel on another machine (P4 > 2.8Ghz HT) using remote GDB.Will this machine be able to run FBSD 5.4 > with GDB (GNU gdb 6.1.1 configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd" ) ? Will i > be able to use GDB from emacs (GUD) on this machine ? > I think that's reasonable hardware for it's purpose. However i think opening gdb under emacs will hog your RAM. See the output of top below: 7320 gaghiel 1 96 0 17944K 12184K select 0:01 0.00% emacs 7357 gaghiel 1 96 0 4424K 3728K select 0:00 0.00% gdb I really don't have any real experencie debugging another crashed machine in the network but i assume that part of an ordinary process. Anyway, if i were you, i would some memory on this machine. Maybem, that would helped things a bit.
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