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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:56:02 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Minimum memory for diskless boot 
Message-ID:  <199601161956.LAA01726@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:34:50 PST." <199601161934.LAA19886@bubba.tribe.com> 

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>I've noticed a strange problem when booting diskless with limited memory.
>For example, even with 5 MB of memory, occasionally some random process
>will segfault and die. But especially with 4 megs. However, when booting
>diskful 4 megs is enough. I assume you need X amount of memory for NFS,
>but then what is X?

   Probably caused by some sort of bug in our NFS.

>Also, a "ps" listing shows bogus time values and every process is
>listed in parentheses (meaning? the man page doesn't say). For example:

   You need to mount /proc.

-DG

David Greenman
Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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