From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 7 01:17:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA19990 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 01:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA19956 for ; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 01:17:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA01682; Tue, 7 Jul 1998 01:16:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199807070816.BAA01682@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Dusk Auriel Sykotik , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jul 1998 10:15:14 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 01:16:55 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Now, where is all the memory being allocated: 1. kernel 2. small process 1 3. small process 2 4. xxxx any other daemons that you have running Also have you trimmed down the kernel? Cheers, Amancio > 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