Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.5 on uVAX II (Questions)
To: Brian Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Greg Ingram <ingram@symsys.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/27/2000 10:27:31
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Brian Chase wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Greg Ingram wrote:
>
> > But I have been reading the list and now that I've hauled the VAX over to
> > Mouhamed, I'm back in business. So, a couple of questions:
> >
> > 1) Is 1.5 worth trying on a low-memory VAX? My system:
> >
> > MicroVAX II
> > realmem = 11526144
> > avail mem = 8810496
> > Using 140 buffers containing 573440 bytes of memory.
>
> What? Since when has 11Megs been considered a low memory VAX? :-) If you
> get down below 8Megs of realmem, maybe you can start claiming to have a
> VAX without much RAM, but 11Megs is still very comfortable.
Er, since the other 8 meg board I'd scrounged doesn't work? :)
Seriously though, I don't quite trust that 11 megs, which I'll address
more a response to Chuck. I guess maybe I should have said
'low-horsepower vax'.
- Greg