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List:       openbsd-ports
Subject:    Re: RFC#8 - bzip2
From:       "Todd T. Fries" <todd () openbsd ! org>
Date:       2003-02-26 15:20:56
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I wonder how this happened then:

OpenBSD 3.2 (GENERIC) #25: Thu Oct  3 19:51:53 MDT 2002
    deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
cpu0: Intel 486DX (486-class)
real mem  = 12169216 (11884K)
avail mem = 5812224 (5676K)
using 174 buffers containing 712704 bytes (696K) of memory

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(last updated 2003/01/02 02:08:59)

Penned by Brad on Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:11:38AM -0500, we have:
| On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:48:55AM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
| > This is not true. bzip2 needs more memory to decompress stuff. It is a
| > hindrance on older machines, or would make it downright impossible to
| > install the base sets without a larger memory footprint (e.g., bump
| > the minimal requirements for a 386 install from 12M to 16M).
| > You might think this is not important, but an older i386 can be quite
| > adequate as a personal firewall box (hint: slow machine, no fans, no
| > noise...)
| 
| Installation on an i386 box already requires more than 16MB of memory as
| it is.
| 
| // Brad

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