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On 12 March 2012 11:19, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote:

> The 32MB is indeed around the lowest amount of memory where recent
> FreeBSD can make an illusion of being useful. I am not sure how much
> should the system be tuned by default for such configuration.

Some -new- embedded wifi hardware is shipping with 16MB of RAM.

Just saying,


Adrian