Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:07:44 -0700 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: alexus <ml@db.nexgen.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: out of swap space Message-ID: <200201261707.g0QH7i868723@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20020126102130.C59495-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net>
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On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:45:55 -0600 (CST) Ryan Thompson wrote:
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| I'm currently building a router/firewall/proxy for a client, using
| FreeBSD 3.5 on a 486DX/2-66 that they supplied with 3072K + 640K +
| 256K = 3968K RAM, and a 180MB HDD. After getting the kernel ~1MB,
| disabling almost everything on boot (ps -ax | wc = 9 :-), it is soon
| to be serving an entire floor of office machines. So, what is it you
| can't do with several orders of magnitude more memory than that? :-)
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To get a really small configuration take a look at the picobsd stuff in
/usr/src/release/picobsd. With 4.4-stable I was able to get a 1.2M floppy
that booted a fully usable command line router that included telnetd,
natd and tcpdump.
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Chris Fedde
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