Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:15:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: Dusk Auriel Sykotik <syko@sykotik.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980707101327.20507D-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199807070702.AAA01156@rah.star-gate.com>
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On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Amancio Hasty wrote:
>
> > > >
> > > > 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.
> >
>
> I would start by first knowing how much memory is needed to run
> a kernel, init plus two or three (small) user programs with the
> current system.
Not much - my experiments show it's somewhere around 6MB (if you start 2-3
different programs, so that they can't share their pages).
Andrzej Bialecki
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