From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 6 23:24:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA05694 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:24:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA05683 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:24:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA26989; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:27:09 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:27:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Dusk Auriel Sykotik cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Dusk Auriel Sykotik wrote: > I once successfully ran FreeBSD on a 486 33 with 8 megs of ram. > (Box is still running in fact, no hdd space left, runs somewhat nicely. > Its running 2.2.6-RELEASE now.) I'm afraid you missed my point... :-) What you describe is not so unusual, especially if the box uses swap space. What I meant was to run in 4MB without swapping. > On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > This is slightly more general question than in the Subject. > > > > First issue is: what would it take to squeeze any useful combination of > > kernel, init plus two-three (small) user programs in 4MB? Which > > You don't want to run any inetd processes? As well as other such things > which use memory. No, I don't want. All I want to run is one or two daemons (routed + some remote login daemon). Andrzej Bialecki --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message