On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 7:33 AM Noth <nothingn...@citycable.ch> wrote:
> I just upgraded a couple of VMs to 6.6 (thanks to everyone for > another brilliant release!) that used to manage in 256Mb of RAM. They > crash at the stage the kernel loads with that amount in 6.6, and with > 288Mb the kernel loading process hangs. It takes 320Mb for them to boot > without any issues. I don't know what's changed but I thought it'd be > worth reporting. I'm using bhyve on FreeBSD 12.0. > I recently installed 6.6 under VMware ESXi 5.5 (both amd64 and i386 flavors) and they booted fine set to only 256MB (although bootup did take a long time). I can't help but wonder if it makes a difference whether you install from scratch on 256MB, or upgrade from an earlier release. Or maybe disk size makes a difference (i.e. if you are loading the kernel from a bigger disk, the boot loader needs more RAM?). My VMs are all built with 8GB disks. Either way, it's clear I need to increase the minimum RAM on my VMs, so thanks for confirming my own observation that 256MB is becoming problematic. -ken
