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George Mitchell wrote on 15/08/2018 08:33:
> On 08/14/18 18:17, Jedi Tek'Unum wrote:
>> I firmly disagree with the entire concept of out of memory killers. Th=
ey are simply evil and in my opinion a complete cop-out. I first encounte=
red this kind of kludge back in the =E2=80=9880s with AIX. It was bad the=
n and it still is today. Frankly I find it ridiculous that they still exi=
st.
>> [...]
>=20
> However: consider the subject (Raspberry Pi).               -- George

When researching whether 512M of RAM was considered "usable" for a=20
FreeBSD buildworld, I came across [https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8302]=20
from October 2016 where just 256M was considered a test case for i386=20
and amd64 (-j1 I'm assuming) buildworlds which should succeed.

Regardless, my RPi3B+ OOMA issues were completely eliminated by=20
replacing the 16G SanDisk "Ultra" card with a "faster" 32G SanDisk=20
"Extreme" card which contains all file systems as well as a swap=20
partition and runs -j4 buildworld flawlessly. I think this lends some=20
support to Warner's view.