From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 26 9: 7:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (cfedde.dsl.frii.net [216.17.139.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D98E37B417 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:07:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g0QH7i868723; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:07:44 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200201261707.g0QH7i868723@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Ryan Thompson Cc: alexus , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: out of swap space In-Reply-To: <20020126102130.C59495-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net> From: Chris Fedde Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:07:44 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:45:55 -0600 (CST) Ryan Thompson wrote: +------------------ | I'm currently building a router/firewall/proxy for a client, using | FreeBSD 3.5 on a 486DX/2-66 that they supplied with 3072K + 640K + | 256K = 3968K RAM, and a 180MB HDD. After getting the kernel ~1MB, | disabling almost everything on boot (ps -ax | wc = 9 :-), it is soon | to be serving an entire floor of office machines. So, what is it you | can't do with several orders of magnitude more memory than that? :-) +------------------ To get a really small configuration take a look at the picobsd stuff in /usr/src/release/picobsd. With 4.4-stable I was able to get a 1.2M floppy that booted a fully usable command line router that included telnetd, natd and tcpdump. -- Chris Fedde To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message