From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 20 23:21:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA22345 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 23:21:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA22325 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 1997 23:21:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA13853 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:21:44 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id HAA16944; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 07:53:22 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19971021075322.GK58851@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 07:53:22 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Urge to apply the vn device hack even to 2.2.5 References: <19971021003621.XE33370@uriah.heep.sax.de> <15920.877390482@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <15920.877390482@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Oct 20, 1997 16:34:42 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > ... (and current.freebsd.org is another 128MB box - > maybe we should make our release-a-day server a 486SX with 8MB of > memory and switch it to being a release-a-week server instead. > We'd not have as useful a service by far, but it sure would catch > those load sensitive bugs early. :-) I was already contemplating to donate my 5 MB 386/16 notebook to John Dyson for development work on low-memory machines. :-)) Background: Bruce yesterday wrote me that the zone memory allocator allocates 256 KB of static memory. This is pretty (too) much on a 5 MB machine. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)