Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 10:25:50 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Thomas Zenker <thz@Lennartz-Electronic.DE> Cc: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD in less than 4MB RAM Message-ID: <199807071725.KAA00785@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jul 1998 13:58:47 %2B0200." <19980707135847.61797@tue.le>
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> A couple of years back it was easily possible to have kernel and a couple of > user processes in 4 MB. I had such a thing running with BSD/386 0.9 - 1.1, > then they got fat. Up to V1.1 it was possible to have a kernel size of > about 360K with the same "needed" functionality as we got later with a > 800K V 2.0 kernel. The same with FBSD, I can not get a kernel smaller > than about 800K now. Probably it would be possible to get a better > modularity, but that's very difficult. > > For those which say "put in more memory/disk": This doesn't help if you > have to run out of batteries w/ solar-panels on very remote localities, > only access by radio-telemetry. You need very low power equipment there. > So the question is not $ but watts. In the same timeframe, memory power consumption has gone down by more than an order of maginitude, while cost has fallen even further. Sorry, but the argument still holds good. 8) -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message
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