Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:27:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Dusk Auriel Sykotik <syko@sykotik.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980707082351.26193A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980706223815.22088E-100000@vortex.starix.net>
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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
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