Memory requirements between releases

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:38:43PM +0100, Chris wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The installation notes for 4.11 say, referring to i386 platform
> " ...after installation, FreeBSD itself can be run in 4-8MB of RAM with 
> a pared-down kernel"
> 
> The installation notes for 5.4 and 6 (the floppies README.TXT) say
> "FreeBSD for the i386 requires ...at least 24 MB of RAM".
> 
> Did the memory requirement really jump that much or is something 
> different being measured?

The quoted text is comparing *installation* requirements (24 on 5.4)
with minimum memory needed to run a pared-down kernel *after
installation* (4-8MB on 4.11).  Apples and oranges.

Kris
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