Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2001 12:34:04 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac10 |
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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
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