From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from burns.conectiva (burns.conectiva [10.0.0.4]) by perninha.conectiva.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EB3E16B63 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 12:34:16 -0300 (EST) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 12:34:04 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 In-Reply-To: <20010521223212.C4934@khan.acc.umu.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: David Weinehall Cc: Pavel Machek , Mike Galbraith , "Stephen C. Tweedie" , Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 21 May 2001, David Weinehall wrote: > 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 ;) cheers, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- 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/