From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 22 15:38:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11394 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:38:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11364 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:37:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17907; Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:37:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199807222237.PAA17907@austin.polstra.com> To: hoek@hwcn.org Subject: Re: Kernel dies. In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 15:37:33 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Question for the galley: Why isn't cvsup installed by default? > > For the same reason you can't compile it on a normal computer. > It (well, modula-3), is big. That's a pretty pathetic notion of what "normal computer" means these days. :-) I've built both Modula-3 and CVSup zillions of times on a 486/66 with 16 MB of RAM. You just have to make sure you have plenty of swap and that your resource limits are high enough. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message