From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 1 17:44:33 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4988814C84 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 1999 17:44:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA22572; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:14:07 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA02699; Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:13:57 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990302121357.Q441@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 12:13:57 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: W Gerald Hicks Cc: Jeffery Bond , FreeBSD questions , wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: How much RAM for 3.1-RELEASE? References: <19990302103021.H441@lemis.com> <199903020124.UAA99565@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199903020124.UAA99565@bellsouth.net>; from W Gerald Hicks on Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 08:24:31PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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