Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:34:24 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Coidan_Sm=F8rgrav?= <dag-erli@ifi.uio.no>, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, "Jeff W." <dmt@bigfoot.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD takes 8 years to boot up Message-ID: <19980824163424.30163@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <199808221709.RAA20160@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 05:09:04PM %2B0000 References: <19980823010133.43922@welearn.com.au> <199808221709.RAA20160@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, Aug 22, 1998 at 05:09:04PM +0000, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > So do you mean that on my overworked 386 with 8 megs RAM and not much > > swap I might as well use GENERIC and save the hassle of building special > > anorexic kernels? If the difference is marginal, that changes everything. > > Do the comparisons yourself and make up your own mind. Apart from > maxusers being too small, GENERIC tries very hard to be > one-size-fits-all. What's the rationale for keeping it that small? It doesn't fit almost any use... I'd at least like to raise it enough to make for a decent X-workstation - to 50 or thereabouts. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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