From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:39:07 +0200 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 Message-ID: <20010525103907.H29793@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> References: <20010521223212.C4934@khan.acc.umu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:34:04PM -0300 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: David Weinehall , Mike Galbraith , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Hi! > > IMVHO every developer involved in memory-management (and indeed, any > > software development; the authors of ntpd comes in mind here) should > > have a 386 with 4MB of RAM and some 16MB of swap. Nowadays I have the > > luxury of a 486 with 8MB of RAM and 32MB of swap as a firewall, but it's > > still a pain to work with. > > You're absolutely right. The smallest thing I'm testing with > on a regular basis is my dual pentium machine, booted with > mem=8m or mem=16m. > > Time to hunt around for a 386 or 486 which is limited to such > a small amount of RAM ;) Buy agenda handheld: 16MB flash, 8MB ram, X, size of palm. It is definitely more sexy machine than average 486. [Or get philips velo 1, if you want keyboard ;-)] Pavel -- The best software in life is free (not shareware)! Pavel GCM d? s-: !g p?:+ au- a--@ w+ v- C++@ UL+++ L++ N++ E++ W--- M- Y- R+ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/