From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 4 14:38:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.x-treme.gr (mail2.x-treme.gr [212.120.196.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B97837B8DD for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 14:38:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat2.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.194]) by mail2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id AAA31916 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 2000 00:37:58 +0200 Received: (qmail 705 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Mar 2000 16:27:08 -0000 Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 18:27:08 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Jeff Bond Cc: Danny , "questions@freebsd. org" Subject: Re: RAM requirements for 3.3-RELEASE installation Message-ID: <20000304182708.B270@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <00030413212500.06423@freebsd.freebsd.org> <001101bf84f1$cc588000$1c00a8c0@pixelfusion.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <001101bf84f1$cc588000$1c00a8c0@pixelfusion.co.uk>; from jeff@pixelfusion.co.uk on Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:21:04AM -0000 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:21:04AM -0000, Jeff Bond wrote: > > I'm not really slagging Redhat off, it's just that FreeBSD seems much > leaner and meaner, and simpler to configure than Redhat. I think > Redhat is trying to do everything 'automagically', making it simpler > for the novice user, but it's a pain in the arse on a small machine. RedHat needs a bit tweaking to make it run with small memory, since the default setup fires up a hell of a lot more services than a minimum install of FreeBSD. But once inetd.conf is edited, and some /etc/rc.d scripts are removed (so that those extra services are not started at boot time automagically) it seems to run nicely even on 8 Mb. Bearing in mind the nice way that FreeBSD works, even when way into swap, it might be that with less memory you get to see why FreeBSD's vm system is more beautiful :) -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message