From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 6 9:59:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501FE37B416 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2917 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2001 17:59:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Dec 2001 17:59:14 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011206092430.O38549-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 09:59:10 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Lamont Granquist Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG 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 06-Dec-01 Lamont Granquist wrote: > > > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Leo Bicknell wrote: >> 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. > > An alternative solution that i haven't read anyone suggest on this thread > is simply to improve man tuning(7) and make people more aware of it. Actually, we _can't_ boot on a 386 with 4 megs of ram. I think you need at least 8, and GENERIC on -current doesn't boot on a 386. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message