Subject: Re: kernel symbol tables (was Re: vmstat, iostat etc no longer work?)
To: None <cjs@portal.ca>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/16/1996 09:40:49
> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 14:45:59 -0800 (PST)
> From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>

> On Thu, 14 Nov 1996, Mike Long wrote:
[...]
> > Well, let me put it this way:  How many people run NetBSD on machines
> > where configuring DDB into the kernel would make it too big?
> 
> Me, for a start. Even with as much stripped out of the kernel as
> I can possibly manage, my 3/50 still swaps when I log in.
> 
> cjs

Well, let's not worry too much about machines with only 4MB of memory
(such as the poor old Sun3/50 boxes).  Having 8MB or more is common...