From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Oct 30 0: 5: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CACE137B404 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 00:05:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982EB43E42 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 00:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9U855pk043605; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 01:05:05 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 01:03:47 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20021030.010347.76766507.imp@bsdimp.com> To: nate@root.org Cc: des@ofug.org, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "MB" instead of "K bytes" in memory probe? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: Nate Lawson writes: : Considering FreeBSD has never run on a machine with less than 1 MB (I : think 4 MB was the lowest) and that the values are only for the benefit of : the user, sounds great. Actually, ultra-stripped 1.0 kernels were being booted on 2MB and 3MB 386SX systems. It was possible to build 1.0 kernels that were 500k or so if you restricted devices and features severely. But you are right. We should use MB for anything under about 2G or so (but even 4G vs 4096M isn't that bad). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message