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Date: 21 Sep 1995 13:40:00 +0100
From: chrimek@rimki.toppoint.de (Christoph Rimek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Message-ID: <5uJT6nN3o_B@rimki.toppoint.de>
References: <43mbad$fj3@bell.maths.tcd.ie>
Subject: Re: Is 4MB enough?
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Hello
In article <43mbad$fj3@bell.maths.tcd.ie>, creilly (creilly@maths.tcd.ie) wrote:
> Is a 486DX66 with 4MB enough to run a real system? I have no intention
> 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.
>
> There would be at most two simultaneous users.
>
> Would it work at all, or do I absolutely need 8MB?
My experiences (not FreeBSD, but NetBSD):
CPU NPU v[cpu] v[bus] RAM size
System1 386DX25 387DX25 25 MHz 25 MHz 4 MB
System2 486DX4/100 internal 100 MHz 33 MHz 16 MB
A kernel recompilation (nearly same configuration file) took 2:20 h
on System1 and 0:21 h on System2.
On the other hand: the GNU C compiler (as any compiler) is a memory hog,
and recompilation is NOT its all-day's job, the small System1 works very
fine and amazingly fast for the normal tasks.
Both systems are meant to work as networked/connnected machines, the
small one as a testing environment, the bigger one as a mail relay/mail
exchanger for about 50 people; both systems do NOT run any X-stuff.
-cr
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Christoph Rimek, Kiel, Germany (+49 431 57601) chrimek@toppoint.de