From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 04:39:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30E8E16A4DD for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:39:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBC743D45 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:39:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1563575wxd for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:39:51 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=je0RICZlo+OnvCGmUJuIXVxypmD2gsdBw879C4iGaRIlLZnS/w44mIrntKbzl9GFD7EfL6x4Y6Pj4gIHQYFV+fcgNpXp8NaMSCwY7rzIlsaZdtpCNaJJjjmZlERgYk8HuwqYLikm0QkumfY5ZtbRKsIyjF7uRHsPxmlL+kH4Gp4= Received: by 10.70.67.4 with SMTP id p4mr8621742wxa; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.49.3 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:39:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:39:50 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5584A99D-CB53-45D8-B552-BFF89A01E9C8@hackmiester.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proof of concept box with 8mB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 04:39:52 -0000 I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE: 4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko. 20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem: 2484K Active, 1396K Iact, 6004K Wired, 680K Cache, 1984K Buf, 348K Free Swap: 7184K Total, 2732K Used, 4452K Free, 38% Inuse FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE: 4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko. 20MB: Boots / Sysinstall dies after writing filesystem information. 24MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem: 2332K Active, 1196K Iact, 9468K Wired, 1136K Cache, 3008K Buf, 840K Free Swap: 32M Total, 2748K Used, 29M Free, 8% Inuse FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE: 4MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 8MB: Dies while mounting root filesystem. 12MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem: 1900K Active, 1408K Iact, 2896K Wired, 472K Cache, 1120K Buf, 308K Free Swap: 32M Total, 2576K Used, 29M Free, 7% Inuse FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE: 4MB: Dies at bootstrap loader. 8MB: Boots / Sysinstall dies while extracting files. 12MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem: 712K Active, 3780K Iact, 2092K Wired, 2024K Cache, 809K Buf, 520K Free Swap: 29M Total, 29M Free FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE: 4MB: Boots / Sysinstall dies while probing devices. 8MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set. Mem: 3764K Active, 432K Iact, 1472K Wired, 244K Cache, 420K Buf, 184K Free Swap: 42M Total, 64K Used, 42M Free