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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Extremely low memory system Date: 16 Sep 1995 03:11:20 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 36 Message-ID: <43df8o$ss4@times.tfs.com> References: <43a1u6$572@tuba.cit.cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:61111 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:6312 As my newsreader says to me: Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny] :) FreeBSD, has been seen to run on 2MB of ram. I wouldn't guarantee the CURRENT version can however.. I don't know if anyone's tried it lately.. the install requires 4MB , though you could install the disk on a machine with more ram and tehn move it.. you'd have to make a kernel with almost evrything you don't want stripped out, and make sure you didn't run many daemons etc. one thing can be guaranteed however, the performance would be pretty abysmal on both Linux or FreeBSD I'm sure you'd be paging at the slightest work. In article <43a1u6$572@tuba.cit.cornell.edu>, Sam <sl63@crux3.cit.cornell.edu> wrote: > I need to run an FTP and HTTP server on an extremely limited machine. >The only resources I have at my disposal are a 486DLC, with 2, yes 2, megs >of RAM... Fortunately, I have a reasonably fast IDE HD... > My question is, will either linux or FreeBSD run at all with 2 Megabytes? >And if they will, what sort of performance should I expect with a low load >(no more than 10 user) FTP server and HTTPD running? Oh yeah, it will have >a network connection, so bandwidth will not be a slowdown. > >-sam >(replys via EMail prefered- mailto:sl63@cornell.edu) > >(dontations of RAM accepted, email for details) >