From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 8 14:04:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95CCC16A404 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:04:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from devon.odell@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F020213C442 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:04:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from devon.odell@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so897006ugh for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:04:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SatLkMae8ZFlmgDelBlsCXWhnD3vHLDJtTUDrTtCWbCFtb0efTpQMghoclhSe3xhSqw9cqdavgS6LoeBIE6eYSmyJRqjMtS85pH/jf5ZEdQMPUp9q+AIsTDoIzP2G6RpzBVoI4O0SPTuTGqi6jv5YnZ5L0bY0cJglVZN+bu+7cs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=N3M26dGOAHL7/24p4JPYC4ZMnyRlLkPZA0qOaVlfQLmjAHMR8qgNG0B61q7Lk7Ms5ShXySJFJXvxwbzpvZHsVISeXDv2LxzNphU0RlLu0uTMGZKLBsGPUQ2CDYVaom/8pxVP3ouFqJjdk5NR7Rk4qc/tI5wKhojy+7QtJ37+LOU= Received: by 10.66.243.2 with SMTP id q2mr6963726ugh.1173361034419; Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:37:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.66.244.4 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Mar 2007 05:37:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <9ab217670703080537oec16256hb9275ff392d96098@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 08:37:14 -0500 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" To: "Rudy Rockstar" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: harddrive no memory ---FreeBSD scenario X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:04:13 -0000 2007/3/8, Rudy Rockstar : > > 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" >