Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:37:14 -0500 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com> To: "Rudy Rockstar" <rudyrockstar@hotmail.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario Message-ID: <9ab217670703080537oec16256hb9275ff392d96098@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY117-F33D9E93EE43D9CBBF4BDFDD4790@phx.gbl> References: <BAY117-F33D9E93EE43D9CBBF4BDFDD4790@phx.gbl>
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2007/3/8, Rudy Rockstar <rudyrockstar@hotmail.com>: > > If I had say a 15k rpm drive, would it be possible to configure the > FreeBSD kernel to not use system memory and ONLY the hard drive for > caching instructions and executing operations? No, probably not. Also, a 15K RPM drive still isn't very fast (compared to RAM) > Can FreeBSD be built to run on a system memory free system (can we > also circumvent the system cache for that matter), if not is it very > difficult to make it run on such a systemme. Apart from wondering how you're getting the motherboard to get past POST without RAM, I'm wondering how you'd get the bootloader and kernel to load in a RAM-less system. You could probably do it for a system with a minimal amount of RAM and let (most) everything run in swap, but that's just going to be ridiculously slow. > regardz, > ~Rudy Any particular reason you're looking into doing this? Kind regards, Devon H. O'Dell > _____________________________________________ .!@#$%&% > ---_---- http://www.[1]rudyrockstar.com -_-----_--------_--- > ------------------------------------------------------ > ----------------- > -----------CELLY--678.984.3831: RiP 1997 -2004---- > -AIM:rudyrockstar- ------- ----------- --------- > -ICQ:6636643-- --- -- -- --------------- -------- > -YahoO:rudyrockstar- ----------- --------------------- > -MSN:rudyrockstar@hotmail.com ------------------------ > ~~~~~~~!~!~~~~~~~~~!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!~~~~~~~!!!!~~~~~~~ > _________________________________________________________________ > > [2]Find what you need at prices youll love. Compare products and save > at MSN(r) Shopping. > > References > > 1. http://www.rudyrockstar.com/ > 2. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENUS/2728??PS=47575 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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