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From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Is 4MB enough?
Date: 19 Sep 1995 15:10:23 +0200
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In article <43mbad$fj3@bell.maths.tcd.ie>, creilly@maths.tcd.ie (Colman Reilly) writes:
|> Is a 486DX66 with 4MB enough to run a real system?  I have no intention

Depends on what you think a real system is.

|> to run X on it, though I would like to be able to run some compilations.
|> It wouldn't be on the net so there would be almost no daemons running.

Your compiler may start pageing and swapping; I'd advise against cc -pipe.

|> Would it work at all, or do I absolutely need 8MB?

I've seen 386bsd0.x up and running on 2Megs, and since the invention of shared
libs I'd expect more to fit into memory than before.

Alas, I have 8Megs now and ghostscript tends to want about 9, so I'll try and
get those other four back into the system...

Bernard