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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Subject: Re: Great Expectation Date: 10 Jan 1994 21:26:01 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 34 Message-ID: <2gsh59$1r5@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <CJEson.M2w@eng_ser1.ie.cuhk.hk> <haley.758224829@scws12> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca Keywords: BSD In article <haley.758224829@scws12>, Elizabeth Haley <haley@scws12.harvard.edu> wrote: >> Someone told me FreeBSD no longer support 4MB 486. > >I doubt this very much. You would however have some trouble using X >with less than 8 megs. i recall reading once that freebsd did, for a time, didn't work very well at all in 4mb ram, but i would suspect that this has been fixed by now.... >You can use it just fine in text mode on 4 megs. I do, on a 386-40. If >FreeBSD in it's current release is requiring 8 megs, something is >wrong. > >HOWEVER, when I do a world rebuild, it takes about 18 hours. I am led >to believe (and do) that increasing my memory to 8 megs would speed >this up a great deal. the extra memory helps. going to 8mb is quite the boost, and when running x, a must. i've got 16 on my machine now, and with a few big xterms [i like scrollback ;-)], i've still got about 5mb free at any given time.... marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--