On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Ian Fry wrote:

> > Admittedly, that's in single-user mode, but it's still something to worry
> > about, especially since that's just memory handled by the pool allocator
> > (I'm building a KMEMSTATS kernel now).
>
> Presumably this is why 2M of free memory when the kernel starts isn't enough
> to boot multi-user on a 4M machine at the moment?

Indeed.

> > Something Must Be Done.
>
> Has anything been done yet? I saw your posting about the sub-pool allocator
> recently, but has that got any further?

No, not least since there was almost no response to the suggestion.  I
suppose I should take that as encouragement.

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
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