From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Aug 24 15:17:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA15082 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp-db.dialup.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15077 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00619; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:13:50 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808241513.PAA00619@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eivind Eklund cc: Mike Smith , Sue Blake , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= , Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group , "Daniel O'Connor" , "Jeff W." , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:34:24 +0200." <19980824163424.30163@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:13:48 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 05:09:04PM +0000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > So do you mean that on my overworked 386 with 8 megs RAM and not much > > > swap I might as well use GENERIC and save the hassle of building special > > > anorexic kernels? If the difference is marginal, that changes everything. > > > > Do the comparisons yourself and make up your own mind. Apart from > > maxusers being too small, GENERIC tries very hard to be > > one-size-fits-all. > > What's the rationale for keeping it that small? It doesn't fit almost any > use... I'd at least like to raise it enough to make for a decent > X-workstation - to 50 or thereabouts. It keeps it usefully sized for small machines. If you want to raise it, make sure you tweak the release Makefile that rewrites GENERIC into BOOTMFS to tune it back down. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message