Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 06:09:47 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More nits Message-ID: <25708.815494187@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 1995 14:40:52 %2B0100." <199511041340.OAA19194@allegro.lemis.de>
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> 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
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