From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 2 07:05:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4ACE216A420 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 07:05:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ltsampros@upnet.gr) Received: from mail.vivodinet.gr (mail4.vivodinet.gr [80.76.39.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 365CF43D45 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 07:05:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ltsampros@upnet.gr) Received: (qmail 22578 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2006 07:04:59 -0000 Received: from dslcustomer-222-89.vivodi.gr (HELO bifteki.tiganaki) (83.171.222.89) by 0 with SMTP; 2 Feb 2006 07:04:59 -0000 Received: from bifteki.tiganaki (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bifteki.tiganaki (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k127585N007373; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:05:09 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from gaghiel@bifteki.tiganaki) Received: (from gaghiel@localhost) by bifteki.tiganaki (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k12756Db007372; Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:05:06 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from gaghiel) Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 09:05:06 +0200 From: Leonidas Tsampros To: Pranav Peshwe Message-ID: <20060202070506.GA7209@bifteki.lan> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD run on an Intel Pentium II with 32MB RAM ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 07:05:06 -0000 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.