From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 14 17:40:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA00606 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:40:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA00509 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:40:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id MAA19689; Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:12:27 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602150142.MAA19689@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: FreeBSD in 5 megs? To: archie@tribe.com (Archie Cobbs) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 12:12:27 +1030 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199602141822.KAA17487@bubba.tribe.com> from "Archie Cobbs" at Feb 14, 96 10:22:49 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Archie Cobbs stands accused of saying: > > FreeBSD 2.1.0 should be able to run in 5 megs of memory, right? Run? I've run it in 2 (yecch, masochism value here 8) > Feb 14 10:11:35 mini /kernel: pid 5: sh: uid 0: exited on signal 11 > Feb 14 10:11:35 mini init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, That _stinks_ of a memory/cache problem. > My guess is that there's some hardware problem, but this has happened on > a couple of different machines and I'd like to try to eliminate other > possibilities as well. Try turning any caching off for starters; you have a Cyrix processor of some sort, and some of these are badly broken. > Archie L. Cobbs, archie@tribe.com * Tribe Computer Works http://www.tribe.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[