Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 07:34:44 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: abial@nask.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: There was PicoBSD - let there be a Mini... Message-ID: <199804190534.HAA11628@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980418232450.24028A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from "Andrzej Bialecki" at Apr 18, 98 11:27:35 pm
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> > you'd need this much space just for the swapfile. > > As I said: it depends. E.g. PicoBSD doesn't use swap at all... So perhaps, > in case of X's, 8MB would be for swap and 16MB for the binaries. not so easy. picobsd is for the expert, and you don't run programs requiring a lot of memory on it. but if you want to build something like minibsd for demo purposes, it must not crash as soon as you start netscape or some other big memory consumer. My experience on a diskless machine is that 32MB of ram are enough to run the standard X environment, but the system starts touching the swap as soon as you run netscape 3 (it takes about 6MB here; netscape4 takes over 10, and i have the impression that at some early stage it forks, so for a while you have two 10MB processes.How much of this is actually duplicated I have no idea). > Yes, this way you could have even quite normal FreeBSD installation... but > you need to keep the right CD in drive all the time. it's a demo after all. E.g. I'd use it to carry around freebsd. A floppy with all my customized files, and a CD with an image of the system (binaries etc.) cheers luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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