Subject: Re: Exercises in patience -- NetBSD/i386 1.5 on a 4Meg 386DX/25
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@slk.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/02/2001 16:39:22
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 04:40:32PM -0800, Brian Buhrow wrote:
> > 	I'm running 0.9a on a 486 with 32MB of memory.  It's positively airy
> > inside the box with not any swapping and performing a lot of work.  Don't
> > think I'd like to run 1.5 on this hardware.
> 
> Depends on what you use it for. the french ftp/sup/www/anoncvs/rsync NetBSD
> mirror is a P100 with 32MB ram, NetBSD 1.5. It performs quite well, without
> exessive swapping.

All of my NAT and routers run 1.5 on old 486dx4-100s w/16mb with much room
to spare, both in CPU and memory.  Quite snappy, except for the ISA
network cards, which only get about 600K/s.

-
Jon
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