Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:13:48 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>, =?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: <199808241513.PAA00619@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:34:24 %2B0200." <19980824163424.30163@follo.net>
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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. It keeps it usefully sized for small machines. If you want to raise it, make sure you tweak the release Makefile that rewrites GENERIC into BOOTMFS to tune it back down. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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