From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 4 06:10:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA21205 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 06:10:09 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA21196 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 06:10:05 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA25711; Sat, 4 Nov 1995 06:09:48 -0800 To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More nits In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 1995 14:40:52 +0100." <199511041340.OAA19194@allegro.lemis.de> Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 06:09:47 -0800 Message-ID: <25708.815494187@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Why not? It's bloating the kernel. It's a *great* thing to have in > the generic kernel--I really like the visual editing--but it's just > ballast in a custom-built kernel which should have tuned all this > stuff already. That's not a bad idea, we simply don't have it instrumented as a detachable component. That's not to say it couldn't be, but there's always more work like this than we have time available to do and I'd probably be more inclined to spend the time fixing bugs, myself! > to run around and boot the workstations. They all fell flat on their > face: they only had 4 MB, and for some reason FreeBSD didn't recognize > the last 384K. The result was that the systems ran out of swap before We don't support 4MB configurations anymore and probably won't until significant work is done to make FreeBSD more dynamic. Sorry, you missed that whole flam^H^H^H^Hdiscussion.. We hit the wall and went over it, and there's no going back without more work than there remains time for in the 2.1 timeframe. I told people this would happen back at 2.0.5 but nobody took the warnings seriously enough until it was already far too late. Jordan