Yep, I compiled my own kernel with only the things I need.  I was able to
get available memory up to about 6Mb.  Still not enough for good compiles
though....
	Rick

On Thu, 20 May 1999, David Brownlee wrote:

> Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 18:06:07 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
> To: Rick Byers <rickb@iaw.on.ca>
> Cc: current-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Memory usage in 1.4
> 
> 	The GENERIC kernel has support for more devices, which makes it
> 	larger - that could be a contributing factor.
> 
> 	Have you tried compiling a custom kernel?
> 
> 		David/absolute
> 
> 	 -=-  "That which does not kill us, makes us stranger"  -=-
> 
> On Thu, 20 May 1999, Rick Byers wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Is it known if NetBSD-1.4 uses signifcantly more memory than 1.3.3?  I've
> > got an old 386 with 8 Mb of ram that use to be very usable with NetBSD
> > 1.3.3, but is now INSANLY slow when compiling under NetBSD-1.4.  Is it
> > just that egcs uses a lot more memory than gcc?  
> > 
> > Also, why do the swapper, pagedaemon and reaper use so much memory (as
> > reported by ps)?  They have an rss of 5.5 Mb on my 386 and 18Mb on my PII
> > (160 Mb RAM).  Is this really accurate?  If there is really 5.5 Mb
> > allocated to the system processes, there shoudln't be anything left.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 	Rick
> > 
> > =========================================================================
> > Rick Byers                       University of Waterloo, Computer Science
> > rickb@iaw.on.ca                               http://www.iaw.on.ca/rickb/
> > 
> 

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Rick Byers                       University of Waterloo, Computer Science
rickb@iaw.on.ca                               http://www.iaw.on.ca/rickb/