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Ram usage on default installations
Hi,
I've been using Slackware Linux for many years, but want to install a *BSD onto an older computer. I tried to search but got no comparison for what I want: What is the RAM usage for the default installs of the last versions fo OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD? |
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FreeBSD requires at least 24 MB of RAM. The other BSD probably have similar requirements.
But that's not very interesting. It all depends on what you want to do with it. A server and a desktop system have very different requirements. Same goes for a desktop system with Xorg and a lightweight WM and software collection (or maybe even without Xorg and just console applications) versus Xorg and one of those big DEs.
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For NetBSD, have a look at one of the INSTALL.* files under the architecture of your choice. E.g., for i386 INSTALL.html says
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Ooh, IdOp, I hadn't considered looking in the INSTALL.* files for OpenBSD. According to INSTALL.i386, 40386 or better processors and 24 or 32MB of RAM and 200MB of disk are the minimal configurations.
Of course, the older architectures have lower minimums. For example, the mvme68k architecture (Motorola 680x0 VME) minimum is 12MB of RAM and 160MB of disk. For Vax, the lowest amount of tested memory is 8M. |
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I also recalled an old thread here:
What should I put on ... It may be of some relevance, but probably not a lot. |
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Thank you guys!
I want the computer to behave as a file server, mail server (for now only fetchmail or equivalent) and also to wget or curl some files for me and to feed some of the text from those files to a rss/atom service (that I still have to find out how). I asked for the default memory footprint, because the memory requisites for these services don't seem to be great. |
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