Anil Gulecha wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Angad Singh <angad at angadsingh.in> wrote: > >> This is awesome. reboot -f, and you're done. Way cool. >> >> So if I have read the ARC case correctly, then this would load up a second >> instance of the kernel into RAM and then switch over to the new instance and >> kill the old one. So it would in turn require a lot of RAM, wouldn't it. >> > > The miniroot is basically under 200 mb. So my guess is you'd need ~200 > of free RAM to switch to the new kernel. This should be fine in > systems with 1 Gb RAM, or maybe even in 512 Mb ones. > > Anil > ______ Intent seems to be that, 1TB memory systems are not far away and BIOS spends more than few minutes initializing all of it...part of which could be delayed to a later time. -surya
> _________________________________________ > ug-bosug mailing list > List-Unsubscribe: mailto:ug-bosug-unsubscribe at opensolaris.org > List-Owner: mailto:ug-bosug-owner at opensolaris.org > List-Archives: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=54 >
