From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 6 5:11:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ussenterprise.ufp.org (ussenterprise.ufp.org [208.185.30.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C31437B416; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 05:11:16 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bicknell@localhost) by ussenterprise.ufp.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fB6DAxN58908; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:10:59 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bicknell) Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:10:59 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell To: Terry Lambert Cc: David Xu , Matthew Dillon , Lamont Granquist , Mike Barcroft , Jim Durham , Jordan Hubbard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? Message-ID: <20011206081059.A58740@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , David Xu , Matthew Dillon , Lamont Granquist , Mike Barcroft , Jim Durham , Jordan Hubbard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011205085750.I28101-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <200112052142.fB5LgVM53167@apollo.backplane.com> <3C0EF953.54CF24DB@mindspring.com> <3C0F0803.7010506@viasoft.com.cn> <3C0F0D02.8AEA9E48@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C0F0D02.8AEA9E48@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:15:30PM -0800 Organization: United Federation of Planets Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:15:30PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > and ordinary user will find FreeBSD is slower, could we let user to > > select which kernel to install at installing time? > > It's a possibility that I've considered, given that sysinstall > had a hard time supporting installing FreeBSD from a single CDROM > image to support both developers and the end product with a single > "golden" system image. > > The problem with doing this is that it sort of grates against the > idea of a "GENERIC" entirely. The problem with GENERIC is it is the lowest common denominator. While it's really cool we can still boot on a 386 with 4 meg of RAM, making the compromises to make that happen is not terribly useful. GENERIC should be tuned _above_ the median PC, because after it's out PC's will continue to be upgraded. If we want to retain the (easy) ability to boot on a 4 meg machine we can supply a second MICRO-GENERIC. For some random thoughts, MAXMEM should be 256M minimum, 1G preferably. MAXUSERS should be perhaps 128 or 256 out of the box. I'd suggest our target should be a P-III 600 with around 256M of RAM as what Generic should be tuned for.... -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message