On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 08:39:45PM -0800, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> On 22 December 2013 14:45, Chris Bee wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 06:40:28PM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
> >> > I'm trying to install 5.4 on an old ThinkPad 760EL and running into
some
> >> > trouble, probably due to how
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:51:53AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> Chris Bee wrote:
> >On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 06:40:28PM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
> >>
> >>The obvious thing you should do is to add more memory to this system.
> >>The 5.4 i386 GENERIC kernel is huge and eats more tha
On 22 December 2013 14:45, Chris Bee wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 06:40:28PM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
>> > I'm trying to install 5.4 on an old ThinkPad 760EL and running into some
>> > trouble, probably due to how little RAM it has - 16 MB.
>> [...]
>> >
> I would not recommend using an old release! However both NetBSD and
> OpenBSD became fat! I don't think it is only the kernel, it looks as if
> every single program got a bit fatter in the years, even plain old stuff
> like bash or xterm.
^
It is a bit hard to consider tho
Hi Chris,
Chris Bee wrote:
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 06:40:28PM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
The obvious thing you should do is to add more memory to this system.
The 5.4 i386 GENERIC kernel is huge and eats more than half the physical
memory, and then the data structures it creates aren't free. Th
> OpenBSD is getting so bloated these days, it requires
> so much RAM :)
Only on x86!
Miod
On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 06:40:28PM +, Miod Vallat wrote:
> > I'm trying to install 5.4 on an old ThinkPad 760EL and running into some
> > trouble, probably due to how little RAM it has - 16 MB.
> [...]
> > I have read INSTALL.i386 and
> > it says that
> > I'm trying to install 5.4 on an old ThinkPad 760EL and running into some
> > trouble, probably due to how little RAM it has - 16 MB.
> [...]
> > I have read INSTALL.i386 and
> > it says that I need at least 32 MB of RAM for 5.4.
> [...]
> >
> I'm trying to install 5.4 on an old ThinkPad 760EL and running into some
> trouble, probably due to how little RAM it has - 16 MB.
[...]
> I have read INSTALL.i386 and
> it says that I need at least 32 MB of RAM for 5.4.
[...]
> Apologies if t
I'm trying to install 5.4 on an old ThinkPad 760EL and running into some
trouble, probably due to how little RAM it has - 16 MB. The install from
the floppy54.fs image went well, no problems. When the machine boots up
for the first time, SSH key generation takes an hour (the laptop is very
slow) bu
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