From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 15 11:21:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AF72106566C for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:21:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jille@quis.cx) Received: from smtp2.versatel.nl (smtp2.versatel.nl [62.58.50.89]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1B78FC18 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:21:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jille@quis.cx) Received: (qmail 25530 invoked by uid 0); 15 Apr 2008 10:54:24 -0000 Received: from ip83-113-174-82.adsl2.versatel.nl (HELO istud.quis.cx) ([82.174.113.83]) (envelope-sender ) by smtp2.versatel.nl (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for < >; 15 Apr 2008 10:54:24 -0000 Received: by istud.quis.cx (Postfix, from userid 100) id 98CC639861; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:54:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.4 (2008-01-01) on istud.quis.cx X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.4 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (ille [192.168.1.4]) by istud.quis.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B8B3985F; Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:54:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48048955.30401@quis.cx> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:54:13 +0200 From: Jille User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Poul-Henning Kamp References: <3753.1208254916@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <3753.1208254916@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "George V. Neville-Neil" , FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: stack hogs in kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:21:06 -0000 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message , "George V. Neville-Neil" write > s: > >>> And in case anybody is about to forget: FreeBSD is still used on >>> systems with a lot less than 1GB ram :-) >> And we'd like it to be used on systems with even less :-) > > I havn't tried anything less than 64MB recently, but I get a nasty > feeling that we are not too happy below that. > I tried it at 64MB ram a few days ago, only problem was that someone else did the bsdlabel, so there was only 128MB swap. Lots of processes got 0K RES after I started the buildkernel ;) (And lots of dmesg errors: "swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed")