Re: FreeBSD's minimum memory requirements.

2006-08-28 Thread Simon L. Nielsen 
On 2006.08.28 00:19:40 -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote:
 I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE 
 through
 2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation:

I been thinking of doing these tests myself but never gotten around to
it.  I think you should file this information as a docs PR so it
doesn't get lost.  I'm not exactly sure where to put this information
(probably in the FAQ somewhere), but it's certainly useful to have
around.

Thanks for doing these tests!

(Note: I don't know when I will find time to get this into some docs,
so if anybody else is interested in this please just go forward :-) ).

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Re: FreeBSD's minimum memory requirements.

2006-08-28 Thread Robert Huff 
Simon L. Nielsen writes:

   I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE 
   through
   2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation:
  
  I been thinking of doing these tests myself but never gotten around to
  it.  I think you should file this information as a docs PR so it
  doesn't get lost.

Seconded.



Robert Huff
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FreeBSD's minimum memory requirements.

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton 

I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through
2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation:

FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE:
4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader.
12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko.
20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set.
Mem: 2484K Active, 1396K Iact, 6004K Wired, 680K Cache, 1984K Buf, 348K Free
Swap: 7184K Total, 2732K Used, 4452K Free, 38% Inuse


FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE:
4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader.
12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko.
20MB: Boots / Sysinstall dies after writing filesystem information.
24MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set.
Mem: 2332K Active, 1196K Iact, 9468K Wired, 1136K Cache, 3008K Buf, 840K Free
Swap: 32M Total, 2748K Used, 29M Free, 8% Inuse


FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE:
4MB: Dies at bootstrap loader.
8MB: Dies while mounting root filesystem.
12MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set.
Mem: 1900K Active, 1408K Iact, 2896K Wired, 472K Cache, 1120K Buf, 308K Free
Swap: 32M Total, 2576K Used, 29M Free, 7% Inuse


FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE:
4MB: Dies at bootstrap loader.
8MB: Boots / Sysinstall dies while extracting files.
12MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set.
Mem: 712K Active, 3780K Iact, 2092K Wired, 2024K Cache, 809K Buf, 520K Free
Swap: 29M Total, 29M Free


FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE:
4MB: Boots / Sysinstall dies while probing devices.
8MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set.
Mem: 3764K Active, 432K Iact, 1472K Wired, 244K Cache, 420K Buf, 184K Free
Swap: 42M Total, 64K Used, 42M Free

I also did a minimum disk space study using FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE back in January:
* 1st column of numbers are from the VM disk image file, outside
FreeBSD. This is significant because it records the total disk space
FreeBSD needed *during* install.
* 2nd column is from inside FreeBSD with du -m after install.
* All numbers reported in megabytes.

Distribution Sets:
Developer   918 741
X-Developer 1080882
Kern-Developer  526 427
X-Kern-Developer690 568
User393 319
X-User  560 461
Minimal 183 156

Extrapolated Results:
Ports System283 270
GNOME-Lite  688 655
KDE-Lite879 864
X.Org Default Install   164 143
X.Org Full Install  177 158
Linux Binary Compat.255 127
Sys Sources + Proflibs  392 315
Kern Sources + Proflibs 133 109

Miscellaneous Sets:
X-User (All X.Org)  572 476
X-User + GNOME-Lite 12471115
X-User + KDE-Lite   14381323
Minimal + Ports System  466 425
Minimal + Linux Compat. 438 282



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