From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 13 21:28:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C82014C1A for ; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 21:28:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id XAA08636; Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:29:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 23:29:36 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Doug White Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Brian Dean , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't install on machine with 8 Meg In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Jun 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 12, 1999 at 01:08:00PM -0400, Brian Dean wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm installing 4.0-19990610-SNAP onto a machine with 8 Meg of memory > > > and it fails as follows: > > > > > > pid 6 (sh), uid 0, was killed: out of swap space > > > > There's a rumour going around that you need 12 meg to install. Why, I > > don't know. > > Becuase in 8MB sysinstall mysteriously tanks during extraction, and works > fine with 12. No error message is produced, so I'm guessing it's a > non- or silently-errorchecked malloc(). I can reproduce this. The docs > are all wrong, thus the PR. > > Took us a while to figure out what was going on as NO ERROR MESSAGE WAS > PRODUCED I got 3.1 installed on an 8 MB machine, with a little bit of tweaking. I was doing it over PPP, so having the PPP client running and eating up some memory wasn't helping any. By creating a custom installation kernel with most of the unneeded devices removed, freeing up about a whole 1MB of RAM, everything went OK. It may be that freeing up just a few hundred KB of RAM would be enough to squeak by. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For Intel x86 and Alpha architectures (SPARC under development). ( http://www.freebsd.org ) "One should admire Windows users. It takes a great deal of courage to trust Windows with your data." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message