Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 15:18:11 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More nits Message-ID: <199511041418.PAA19341@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <25708.815494187@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 4, 95 06:09:47 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard writes: > > > Why not? It's bloating the kernel. It's a *great* thing to have in > > the generic kernel--I really like the visual editing--but it's just > > ballast in a custom-built kernel which should have tuned all this > > stuff already. > > That's not a bad idea, we simply don't have it instrumented as a > detachable component. That's not to say it couldn't be, but there's > always more work like this than we have time available to do and I'd > probably be more inclined to spend the time fixing bugs, myself! > > > to run around and boot the workstations. They all fell flat on their > > face: they only had 4 MB, and for some reason FreeBSD didn't recognize > > the last 384K. The result was that the systems ran out of swap before > > We don't support 4MB configurations anymore and probably won't until > significant work is done to make FreeBSD more dynamic. Sorry, you > missed that whole flam^H^H^H^Hdiscussion.. We hit the wall and went > over it, and there's no going back without more work than there > remains time for in the 2.1 timeframe. I told people this would > happen back at 2.0.5 but nobody took the warnings seriously enough > until it was already far too late. I'm not really bitching about this. I tend to agree that 4MB is too little memory for anything useful, but I still think it's worth drawing to people's attention that we *don't* want a System V, and that there are virtues in small, lean systems. And I agree that now that the config stuff is a permanent component of the kernel, it probably won't go away. All the more reason to bear the problems in mind before starting the project. Greghome | help
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