I was playing around with vmstat a while back, and think this
discussion finally gives me an excuse to post the measurements. :)
For my system running Debian GNU/Hurd (gnumach+hurd 20000301 CVS),
with no additional daemons or much else out of the ordinary, the
memory usage looked like:
active inactive wired
|------|--------|-----
To login: 5.69M 6.17M 2.08M
Within emacs (on console): 7.66M 9.72M 2.29M
Within XFree-3.3.6 (2 xterms and little else): 11M 11.6M 2.77M
Compiling gnumach (on console, peak values): 15.6M 12.3M 3.33M
So you're looking at needing at least 16 megabytes of memory
(preferably RAM) to boot, and ~32 meg for any serious compiling. The
scrawniest machine I've personally tried GNU/Hurd on was a 486DX50 w/
20 meg of RAM, and while it did work, it wasn't very fun. (I never did
get it to completely compile the hurd sources; I think I estimated it
would take over 10 hours, and as someone who has to pay for his
electricity usage from his own pocket...)
--
Chris Baird,, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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