From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 15 22:10:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA10590 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 22:10:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA10484 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 22:09:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA00633; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 01:08:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199802160608.BAA00633@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: VM messed: vm_page_free panic problem In-Reply-To: <199802160559.VAA04833@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Feb 15, 98 09:59:22 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 01:08:51 -0500 (EST) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, mike@smith.net.au, sthaug@nethelp.no, roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] 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 Mike Smith said: > > > > 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... > > It doesn't. You can boot FreeBSD on a machine with 2M. > > You need 5M to avoid having the *installation* disk puke when it runs > out of memory. > For JKH, and others building boot floppies -- use DISABLE_PSE to make the problem go away (I think.) It should be the default in the config file until I can fix it. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message