On Wednesday, July 11, 2001, at 02:37  am, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:55:10PM +0100, Matthew Theobalds wrote:
>> So what happens to the rest? The Mac OS can presumably use it, why not
>> NetBSD? This is a genuine question, it's difficult to phrase 'nicely'.
>
> NetBSD *is* using it. For the kernel data structures it uses to keep
> track of the memory it exports to the user level system, of the file
> system, of the IP stack, and so forth.
>
> It's available. It's being used. It's just not available to user
> level processes (as opposed to kernel level, NOT as opposed to
> root--root is a user in this context).

Right! That occurred to me last night. I wasn't sure whether or not the 
kernel could free up the memory it was using. This is of course the case.

>> That's what I've been doing. ;]
>
> Heh. Yes, I see your problem. ;^>
>
> If you want a pruned kernel, I probably have a 68k machine around I
> can build one on to get things to a useable state.

That's a kind offer, it's still churning away nicely now I've just got 
up. And the top is off so he's running nice and cool. Fortunately, I got 
up before the sun poured through the window to fry him... he's now in 
the shade. But we'll see how this goes, and then I'll get back to you.

> In the long run, you definitely want more RAM, though.

Definitely agreed. I'll keep my eyes open.

Thanks, all the best.

Matthew