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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

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