On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:07:05AM -0500, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
> Bruce O'Neel wrote:
> >Thus idea one, ie, small memory, might be the problem.
> >
> >My PB540 has 36 meg.
> 
> Unfortunately, for these systems that's "big memory".  NetBSD won't be 
> much of a contender for embedded/legacy systems if this is the trend. 
> That's very sad, because support for older systems is one of the main 
> reasons I became interested in NetBSD.

Big or small, FWIW, my Centris 660av with 36MB RAM is running fine (42
day uptime) with a 3.99.7 kernel built from July 4 sources. I haven't
tried the netbsd-3 branch on it.

BTW, top says:
Memory: 11M Act, 4100K Inact, 424K Wired, 4156K Exec, 6368K File, 6652K Free
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