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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.

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