From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 10:28:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9502316A4CE; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:28:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bgo1smout1.broadpark.no (bgo1smout1.broadpark.no [217.13.4.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C30943D48; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:28:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from bgo1sminn1.broadpark.no ([217.13.4.93]) by bgo1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ICO00ILH4UGU300@bgo1smout1.broadpark.no>; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:23:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from dsa.des.no ([80.203.228.37]) by bgo1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ICO00MSK56VOG80@bgo1sminn1.broadpark.no>; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:30:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by dsa.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id EF9C24535E; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:28:25 +0100 (CET) Received: from xps.des.no (xps.des.no [10.0.0.12]) by dsa.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 3E5054516B; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:28:06 +0100 (CET) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 33E5033C3E; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:28:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:28:06 +0100 From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) In-reply-to: <200502281644.54210.jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin Message-id: <86acpnmzih.fsf@xps.des.no> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on dsa.des.no References: <200502262340.j1QNeAwm029973@repoman.freebsd.org> <861xb0ha8r.fsf@xps.des.no> <200502281644.54210.jhb@FreeBSD.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=disabled version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Level: cc: "Bruce A. Mah" cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/installation/common install.sgml X-BeenThere: cvs-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the entire tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:28:31 -0000 John Baldwin writes: > How about a custom boot kernel? When I suggested 12MB rather than > 7MB in the original PR, I was thinking of the case of building a > stripped-down custom kernel. GENERIC certainly isn't going to fit > well in 16MB. A custom kernel should work better. I figured out that the "missing" memory is in fact the memory used by the kernel, so a system with a trimmed kernel should have a lot more memory available. I'll run some more tests... DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no