Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:02:30 -0700 From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org> To: SimsS@IBM.Net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for somebody with a 16MB testbox Message-ID: <19980421200230.38680@micron.mini.net> In-Reply-To: <000901bd6d72$c0e563c0$64468094@Elvis.RatsNest.VaBeach.Va.Us>; from Steve Sims on Tue, Apr 21, 1998 at 06:13:45PM -0400 References: <000901bd6d72$c0e563c0$64468094@Elvis.RatsNest.VaBeach.Va.Us>
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Steve Sims <SimsS@IBM.Net> stands accused of saying:
>
> I can arrange that here easily enough. I have to install RH5 tomorrow
> (again!) to do some emulation-related stuff, so if someone doesn't beat
> me to it in the next 12 hours, if you can produce some no-brainer
> instructions I'll do the lework. (Or I can give you an account on the
> machine and you can do it yourself 8)
>
> You don't want something stupid like an ISA IDE disk or something in it
> now do you?
My 386DX/40 box had 16M in it for a while, with a single 1.2G IDE,
and it took 1:20 or so to compile custom kernels. (2.2.1-R) This is, of course,
with a 16-bit multi-I/O card. It's got 32M in it now, and it doesn't really
take that much less time:
micron:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC# time make all
[ ... Irrellevent text deleted ... ]
5101.79 real 3755.47 user 537.05 sys
Of course, my custom kernel is much less of a kernel than GENERIC,
but still.
... I should mention that this box was not only compiling: a couple
people use my machine for email, and one of them logged in and ran pine
while compiling (not to mention my own usage). Also, a copy of PennMUSH
was running as well, serving a few users : nobody noticed I was
compiling code, of course (only a LA of 1.2 or so, no reason why they
should).
I tell my Linux friends what I do with FreeBSD on a 386. Most of
them flat won't beleive me. I have actually had arguments over this in
the past, even to the point where I had to open up the case and show
someone the processor.
--
Jonathan Mini
(j_mini@efn.org)
"A child of five could understand this! Quick -- Fetch me a child of five."
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