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To: Archie Cobbs <archie@tribe.com>
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Subject: Re: Minimum memory for diskless boot 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:34:50 PST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 11:56:02 -0800
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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