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SubjectRe: Strange interrupt behaviour
On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Alex Buell wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > Anyway, looking at the table it is fairly obvious why machines with much
> > memory don't tend to have problems..
>
> Yes, precisely. From your figures, 64MB machines are just right for 2.1.x
> kernels at the moment which is quite reasonable, but if we could get this
> fixed for 8MB boxes - 46% attrition rate isn't good - [which most 386s
> usually have], then I think everyone would be a lot happier with that.
>
> I don't know if there are anyone still using 4MB boxes with 2.1.x kernels
> - anyone else care to speak up?
>
> Cheers,
> Alex.
>

I used to use an old 386 with 4mb of ram with slackware but I recently
stopped when I got my pentium machine. I would guess that 1% of linux users
still have such an arrangement.

The Linux community seems to take pride in bringing old hardware to life
again. With a 2.0.3x kernel I've heard that a 386 makes a nice and very
cheap ip masq box and even a router. I would be sad to have that stop or
leave ppl hanging with older kernels wide open to the new DoS attack of the
month kiddies. As a matter of fact I am making a UMSDOS based installation
designed for such systems and I would love to get a 2.2.x kernel in it as
soon as possible.

I would encourage those of you to working on kernel memory management, etc.
to please keep the 4mb machines supported.

Thanks for your time...

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Bruce A. Locke blocke@lizard.org
http://www.lizard.org/blocke/
http://www.lizard.org/dragonlinux


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