Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 08:27:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Dusk Auriel Sykotik <syko@sykotik.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980707082351.26193A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980706223815.22088E-100000@vortex.starix.net>
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On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Dusk Auriel Sykotik wrote:
> I once successfully ran FreeBSD on a 486 33 with 8 megs of ram.
> (Box is still running in fact, no hdd space left, runs somewhat nicely.
> Its running 2.2.6-RELEASE now.)
I'm afraid you missed my point... :-) What you describe is not so unusual,
especially if the box uses swap space. What I meant was to run in 4MB
without swapping.
> On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is slightly more general question than in the Subject.
> >
> > First issue is: what would it take to squeeze any useful combination of
> > kernel, init plus two-three (small) user programs in 4MB? Which
>
> You don't want to run any inetd processes? As well as other such things
> which use memory.
No, I don't want. All I want to run is one or two daemons (routed + some
remote login daemon).
Andrzej Bialecki
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