From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 15 20:29:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA22415 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:29:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22383 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 20:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA05660; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 21:29:08 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd005641; Sun Feb 15 21:29:04 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27002; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 21:29:00 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199802160429.VAA27002@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: VM messed: vm_page_free panic problem To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 04:29:00 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, sthaug@nethelp.no, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199802160301.TAA04333@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Feb 15, 98 07:01:44 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I would be surprised if these disks would boot on a 5M system without > > PSE capability. I think we are talking 6M now. > > The entire BOOTMFS image is a bit under 3MB. 5MB is probably still > workable, but the installation will be slower than if you have 8MB+ > (buffer cache, less MFS paging, etc.) Why does FreeBSD require 5M to boot, then? If the kernel loads at 1M, and takes 3M or less, then the 5M requirement should go away, right? I mean, 1 + 3 = 4... > > The easiest test would be to build a distribution after defining > > DISABLE_PSE, and see if those boot. > > Try the next SNAP from current.freebsd.org. I expect we'll hear about > it one way or the other. 8) Yup. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message