From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 7 01:12:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA19326 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 01:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA19317 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 01:12:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA25848; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:15:14 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:15:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Amancio Hasty cc: Dusk Auriel Sykotik , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM In-Reply-To: <199807070702.AAA01156@rah.star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message