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Date:      Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:13:48 +0000
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Jeff W." <dmt@bigfoot.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up 
Message-ID:  <199808241513.PAA00619@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:34:24 %2B0200." <19980824163424.30163@follo.net> 

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> On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 05:09:04PM +0000, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > 
> > > So do you mean that on my overworked 386 with 8 megs RAM and not much
> > > swap I might as well use GENERIC and save the hassle of building special
> > > anorexic kernels? If the difference is marginal, that changes everything.
> > 
> > Do the comparisons yourself and make up your own mind.  Apart from 
> > maxusers being too small, GENERIC tries very hard to be 
> > one-size-fits-all.
> 
> What's the rationale for keeping it that small?  It doesn't fit almost any
> use...  I'd at least like to raise it enough to make for a decent
> X-workstation - to 50 or thereabouts.

It keeps it usefully sized for small machines.  If you want to raise 
it, make sure you tweak the release Makefile that rewrites GENERIC into 
BOOTMFS to tune it back down.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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