On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:00 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've searched the FAQ and the Web for any guidance on what the minimum RAM > is for OpenBSD, with and without X. > > I just acquired a Compaq Armada 1125 laptop that maxes out at 24 MB of > RAM, and I'm wondering whether or not it's feasible to run OpenBSD on it. > My router for several years was an IBM "PS/2E", model 9533 with a 50MHz 486 SLC2 + 25MHz 387SX FPU(not a typo) and 16MB RAM. I haven't run anything newer than about 3.8 or 3.9 on it, but it worked fine then, including the install. I'm sure I've posted in more detail about it before -- check the archives. Heck, I even ran X on it as a "see if it works" thing, but it wasn't good for anything more than opening a couple xterms.
The reason I abandoned it is that when faster connections became available, the CPU couldn't keep up. It would only pass about 2Mbit of traffic before the interrupts from the ethernet cards (16-bit PCMCIA, essentially ISA) consumed 90% CPU.
