From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 9 03:40:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA27083 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 03:40:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (geos01.oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com [134.32.44.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA27072 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 03:40:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com) Received: from sunw110.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (sunw110 [192.23.231.54]) by oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA14215 ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:36:35 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by sunw110.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA10648; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 12:36:34 +0200 To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Amancio Hasty , Dusk Auriel Sykotik , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM References: Organization: Schlumberger Geco-Prakla X-Disclaimer: I speak only for myself. From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 09 Jul 1998 12:36:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: Andrzej Bialecki's message of Tue, 7 Jul 1998 10:36:08 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrzej Bialecki writes: > Also, "kernel" above doesn't equal `size kernel` - there are disk buffers, > mbufs, stacks, and whatnot which are allocated on start; so its much > bigger. I think a significant portion of that can be eliminated by reducing MAXUSERS, but it's quite possible I'm speaking out of my arse. If you blow away most of /etc and set up a completely customized environment, you might very well never need more than a handful of processes (ever tried MASUERS=2?) but it may have a detrimental effect on network performance since it also reduces the number of mbufs and mbuf clusters, which is Not Good (tm) if you're trying to set up a router or gateway or whatever. Just my (insert insignificant amount of your favorite currency here). DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message