Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 08:10:59 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: David Xu <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jim Durham <jimd@nepinc.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can TCP changes be put in RELENG_4? Message-ID: <20011206081059.A58740@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <3C0F0D02.8AEA9E48@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:15:30PM -0800 References: <20011205085750.I28101-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> <200112052142.fB5LgVM53167@apollo.backplane.com> <3C0EF953.54CF24DB@mindspring.com> <3C0F0803.7010506@viasoft.com.cn> <3C0F0D02.8AEA9E48@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:15:30PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > and ordinary user will find FreeBSD is slower, could we let user to
> > select which kernel to install at installing time?
>
> It's a possibility that I've considered, given that sysinstall
> had a hard time supporting installing FreeBSD from a single CDROM
> image to support both developers and the end product with a single
> "golden" system image.
>
> The problem with doing this is that it sort of grates against the
> idea of a "GENERIC" entirely.
The problem with GENERIC is it is the lowest common denominator.
While it's really cool we can still boot on a 386 with 4 meg of
RAM, making the compromises to make that happen is not terribly
useful.
GENERIC should be tuned _above_ the median PC, because after it's
out PC's will continue to be upgraded. If we want to retain the
(easy) ability to boot on a 4 meg machine we can supply a second
MICRO-GENERIC.
For some random thoughts, MAXMEM should be 256M minimum, 1G
preferably. MAXUSERS should be perhaps 128 or 256 out of the box.
I'd suggest our target should be a P-III 600 with around 256M of
RAM as what Generic should be tuned for....
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