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Old 17th May 2012
tehsean tehsean is offline
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Originally Posted by jggimi View Post
That's not kernel space consumption, that's video memory. The 5.0-release, uniprocessor i386 kernel consumes just under 9MB.

Using config(8) to disable drivers will save no RAM whatsoever; they are statically linked within the monolithic kernel.
And FWIW, I attempted to get OpenBSD 4.8 or 4.9 (can't recall) running on a machine with 20MB ram with a GENERIC modified kernel config. I got down to about 6MB but that was cutting out all of the USB / BT / anything relevant in the last 10 years of computer hardware.

In the end it worked but I had some issues with PCMCIA cards that I think may have been related to my 'choices'.
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