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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2000 00:09:10 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        "Roberto Nunnari, AGIE" <roberto.Nunnari@agie.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-small@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: minimum HW requirement 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001130001560.71180-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001122330340.70495-100000@propro.oldserver.demon.nl>

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IMHO you will find out that scaling FreeBSD to feel well within 2MB RAM or
less is not easy. Most certainly it's not going to be a "select A and B,
omit C" type of configuration process.

I managed to run quite a few well-behaving programs in 3MB, but it
required careful analysis of resource consumption and/or application
management. Also, I had to make some adjustments on a source level of
kernel code (mainly to get rid of unneeded parts).

I also recently received a report that the standard "router" type of
floppy can run in 2MB RAM.

Of course all these numbers are _without_ using swap, but I assume that's
your case as well...

Andrzej Bialecki

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