>    I have two more ram boards that I could put in, but would rather work
>    with the 16mb configuration as opposed to a 32mb ram configuration,
>    if possible, since the swap size on drv0 is only 20mb.  Will that be
>    sufficient for a singleuser compile of the kernel and the tapeboot
>    bits?
> 
> um ...
> 
> why aren't you putting that memory in?  NetBSD is not like sunos4
> in that you must allocate swap space beyond the size of ram for
> it to be useful.  virtual memory is real ram + swap space (or so).

OK, I was not exactly aware of that.

> that extra 16mb will make *all* the difference for the kernel link
> at the end, too... maybe half or more the time it takes :-)
> 
> the only reason i can think of to leave the memory out would be
> if you wanted to try out "smaller memory" configurations...

Well, it takes forever to test on bootup with 32M.  Anyway, if
the ram wont conflict with the swap size, then I will stuff the
memory boards in.

Thanks

Bob

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