>>Sorry, but how do you calculate memory requirements for both? Memory allocated 
>>by kernel? By something else? Please, define what exactly you want to know.
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> 
> Didn't make any calculation yet; it's just my overall feeling.
> 
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>>For example, i'm running NetBSD/i386 2.x on systems with 16Mb or 32Mb of RAM 
>>and i cannot say it needs all of this.
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> Did you made any special tuning - or you're running the system installed
> just "out of the box"?

I'm running one old 80486 machine with 16mb ram
with generic 1.6.2 kernel without tunnig any features,
which serve shells for a few users, also provide routing/nat/fw,
runnig irc bot and I haven't had any bigger problem
with performance..

		andrej

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