Theo de Raadt wrote:
OpenBSD 4.7 (GENERIC) #558: Wed Mar 17 20:46:15 MDT 2010
[email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel Pentium II ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 234MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,MMX
real mem = 100233216 (95MB)
avail mem = 87961600 (83MB)
pstat -s
Device 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Priority
swap_device 329980 0 329980 0% 0
OK, I'm game to ask after seeing Theo's response. I actually have some
equipment like this, not that I use it this way, "normally".
You're kidding.
So, change a setting or rewrite things to fit better in this small
memory space?
There is no solution. The tables are in kernel memory.
The kernel isn't going to go out to swap space to check if packets
should flow through. Would anyone want that? No, of course not.
I was actually using that laptop to make some pretty extensive website
changes last year, while traveling with little internet access.
Filled those boring hours while I waked up hours before the "world" back
then. No regrets having brought that old thing with me! :)
Laptops tend to have more than 83MB of available memory.
No kidding, that sucker only has 128MB, after I added memory.
And I'm serious, I really did feel perfectly safe bringing it to parts
unknown, where the locals said I really shouldn't be carrying it around
in the streets.
I still have that antique, right here, working alongside a "real" computer.
But anyway, thanks for answering the question clearly
Chris Bennett
