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Hi,

On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Brian Chase wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000, Matt London wrote:
> 
> > Well I got my MicroVAX 3100 m10e all set up, enabled a handful of daemons,
> > and noticed that 4M RAM is really not enough to do anything contructive
> > with this machine at all. After over 8 hours (I left it overnight), I
> > decided to give up on waiting for it to boot. It'd got up to starting
> > nfsd. It really hits swap hard (there's plenty of it).
> >
> > [...]
> 
> Are you running with a GENERIC kernel (the one that came with the install)
> or do you have a custom compiled kernel?

It's a generic - I wasn't about to try compiling another on a box with
only 4M, when I know I should have a 4M upgrade for it in a few weeks
time. Thought I'd leave it till then.
 
> Firstly, I think you'd be a bit optimistic if you're trying to run nfsd on
> such a system. You're not going to be able to much in the way of offering
> server side functionality on 4Megs. If you haven't already, I'd suggest
> reducing the number of nfsd's down to 1 from the default of 4.

hehe - well I might kill it all together having seen this. I've just not
played much over christmas - my little b(r)other has been co-habiting my
room.

> However, if a 4Meg system can't even boot multiuser with a stripped down
> kernel, then I think we need to find out where the extra bloat is hiding
> in the 1.5 kernel and find a way to work around it.

A stripped down kernel would probably be a big improvement. It's not going
to boot a usable multiuser system on a generic kernel - that's for
sure. Even if I don't exec the boot scripts and start inetd by hand it
you can hear it grinding away at the swap drive when you telnet in, and
that's before you run anything :&/ Well, we'll see how things go when I
get this other 4M.

Bye for now,

       Matt
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