Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Colin Wood wrote:
> 
> > Really?  How'd you manage to suck up that much RAM?  Most of my custom
> > kernels only allocate around 4MB, and they're usually smaller than the
> > GENERIC kernels....are you using the RaidFrame driver in -current or
> > something?  I hear it's supposed to be a little big.
> 
> I dunno. The difference between real mem and available mem works out
> to 5.4M, and then 486 buffers add almost 2 more M. I suppose I do have
> a few things in there that I don't actually need.
> 
> Next question: not yet. My kernel build just choked on raidframe. 
> 
> So now, has anyone booted 1.3.2-GENERIC with only 8M of ram?

BTW, this is a definite yes.  My SE/30's only have 8MB of RAM, and they
seem to do just fine.

In all reality, I think that the allocated buffers count as part of the
5.4MB, but I could be wrong about that....

Later.

Colin