Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:13:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> Cc: Jeffery Bond <Jeff.Bond@nectech.co.uk>, FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: How much RAM for 3.1-RELEASE? Message-ID: <19990302121357.Q441@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199903020124.UAA99565@bellsouth.net>; from W Gerald Hicks on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:24:31PM -0500 References: <19990302103021.H441@lemis.com> <199903020124.UAA99565@bellsouth.net>
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On Monday, 1 March 1999 at 20:24:31 -0500, W Gerald Hicks wrote: > >> I think you can still do it in 5 MB. Try it and see. > > I don't think so... I have a spambox here that reports 7168K and it > hangs (using PLIP) immediately when starting to pull the bin dist > files. I've been blaming it on running out of memory. > > I _am_ able to get it loaded using 3.0-RELEASE and RELENG_2_2 > works well too. Interesting. It's not the classic symptom, though. If you try with less than 5 MB, the kernel doesn't get to run. Has anybody else had this kind of problem with 3.1 and small memory sizes? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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