From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 27 18:19:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 822C516A4E5 for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:19:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from harmony.bsdimp.com (vc4-2-0-87.dsl.netrack.net [199.45.160.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 723AB43D4C for ; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:19:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1] (may be forged)) by harmony.bsdimp.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7RIHcNr057211; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:17:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:17:38 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20060827.121738.74693185.imp@bsdimp.com> To: torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no From: Warner Losh In-Reply-To: <20060827192741.fd7c86a4.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20060827034652.ad43299b.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> <20060827181312.38bd2ab6@localhost> <20060827192741.fd7c86a4.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0 (harmony.bsdimp.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 27 Aug 2006 12:17:38 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:19:15 -0000 16MB is enough to run FreeBSD for limited applications, with carefully crafted kernel. It is not enough to run sysinstall. Last I checked, sysinstall was pushing 24MB in size, with 32MB being really better. Warner