Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Jul 1998 01:47:54 -0500 (CDT) | From | Dustin Marquess <> | Subject | Re: Strange interrupt behaviour |
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I currently have a 386DX/33 system with 8MB RAM running as a dedicated router using the 2.1.107vger source tree.. works great... I haven't had any problems with memory usage yet... It uses IP Masq for outgoing connections and IP portfw for incoming, and it works like a champ...
-Dustin
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
> 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... > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bruce A. Locke blocke@lizard.org > http://www.lizard.org/blocke/ > http://www.lizard.org/dragonlinux > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html >
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