10.2-Beta i386..what's wrong..?

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 00:47:19 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> > Even amd64 is no guarantee. I installed one of the Illumos spinoffs on a
> > 2GB amd64 netbook (they mostly force zfs). I think it lasted 2 days
> before
> > the kernel panics started.
> >
>
> Even on amd64, you need to tune the system with less than 4GB RAM.


I knew it wasn't going to fly, in fact I looked for ways to get the
installer to do ufs instead because I couldn't imagine zfs being able to
work in 2GB. Somehow I don't think old netbooks are in Illumos's plans. :)

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