Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:57:02 +0200 From: Patrick Lamaiziere <patfbsd@davenulle.org> To: andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how many memory is needed for FreeBSD 9 ? Message-ID: <20121023185702.1544dd49@davenulle.org> In-Reply-To: <20121021164950.GA65075@ozzmosis.com> References: <20121021182159.38d1113b@davenulle.org> <20121021164950.GA65075@ozzmosis.com>
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Le Mon, 22 Oct 2012 03:49:50 +1100, andrew clarke <mail@ozzmosis.com> a écrit : Hello, > > I'm updating an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.1 with 64 MB ram (44MB > > available) but now FreeBSD 9.1 panics at boot time: > > > > panic: kmem_malloc(4194304): kmem_map too small: 24584192 allocated? > > That's one very old laptop. I think you'll need to install more memory > or downgrade FreeBSD to an earlier version. 1998, I think (HP Omnibook 900). I use it for small network testing and serial console access. It works well for this. Well I've put 8-STABLE on it (two days to make buildworld/buildkernel). Looks good. > From my limited testing under VirtualBox, 96 MB RAM is about the lower > limit that will allow FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 to boot before the swap > partition is enabled. Any less and the kernel will freeze or panic at > boot. This was with the amd64 version though, not i386. Thanks for this, regards.
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