Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:48:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807091443220.24539-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <rx4emvvz4y5.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>
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On 9 Jul 1998, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote:
> Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> 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.
You mean proc tables etc... I'm not sure if it's significant (see below).
> 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
Yes. I even tried MAXUSERS=1 :-).
> 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.
This I can adjust with NMBCLUSTERS and MBUFS, or tweak the numbers
manually.
Andrzej Bialecki
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