Future at Berzerkeley

[Malaclypse the Elder]

In article <52184 at uunet.UU.NET>, rick at uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) writes:
> > S5R4's VM will be derived from the SunOS 4.x VM (complete with "mmap").
> 
> Does this mean S5R4 won't run reasonably on machines with less than 8 megabytes
> of memory...

i believe that the observed 8M requirement for suns is due to
the size of its window management system.  if you are running
a strict "standard" tty type system, you should be okay with 
4M (unless of course you run large applications).

i guess what i'm saying is that the kernel hasn't gotten that
much larger and as long as you stay away from paging/swapping,
you should be okay.  this is of course, only my opinion.

danny chen
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