From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 21 06:25:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA12329 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 06:25:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from sumatra.americantv.com (sumatra.americantv.com [207.170.17.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA12298 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 06:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@americantv.com) Received: from right.PCS (right.PCS [148.105.10.31]) by sumatra.americantv.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA14584; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:24:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by right.PCS (8.6.13/8.6.4) id IAA08728; Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:23:53 -0500 Message-ID: <19971021082352.19021@right.PCS> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:23:52 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: 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> <19971021075322.GK58851@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.61.1 In-Reply-To: <19971021075322.GK58851@uriah.heep.sax.de>; from J Wunsch on Oct 10, 1997 at 07:53:22AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Oct 10, 1997 at 07:53:22AM +0200, J Wunsch wrote: > 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. Hey, I still have a 4MB 386/20 running 2.2-960612-SNAP in production as a firewall machine. It works just fine, except for those pesky "sleep(5) after select" messages from telnet when it gets swapped out. Don't forget the little machines that do a lot of the dirty work. -- Jonathan