From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 17 02:29:46 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA05834 for current-outgoing; Wed, 17 May 1995 02:29:46 -0700 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA05828 for ; Wed, 17 May 1995 02:29:41 -0700 Received: from cc.uq.oz.au by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au id <25648-0@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>; Wed, 17 May 1995 19:29:33 +1000 Received: by pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.10/DEVETIR-E0.3a) id TAA15908; Wed, 17 May 1995 19:32:34 +1000 From: Stephen McKay Message-Id: <199505170932.TAA15908@pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au Subject: Enthusiasm boost: make world works on 386SX16 4Mb Date: Wed, 17 May 95 19:32:34 EST Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Feeling down because your Pentium 90 complains about syntax errors in the latest sysinstall? Worried about your slow Internet connection? Fooey! Gain a special warmth from the knowledge that FreeBSD-current (as of 1995-05-09 20:57) compiles from scratch in a mere 6 days non-stop on a 386SX16 with 4Mb ram, IDE disk, vnconfig'd swap space and NFS mounted /usr/src and /usr/obj. We're talking 140 hours, give or take a few. Be happy to know that every type of swap-in/swap-out/page-in/page-out/vm-fault code sequence was exercised thousands of times in a memory starved environment. Be not indifferent to the fact that it still ran well enough while compiling to allow a few vmstats and pstats and the occasional 'man vnconfig'. Key echo was fine, most of the time. :-) 2.0.5 is looking really solid to me! No hangs, glitches or weird things, and all my swap space stayed usable. Prepare for pats on the back all round! Stephen. PS. Those of you with a trivia fixation can enjoy the following: 'make world' caused 60 million wdc0 interrupts and 6 million ed0 interrupts.