Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z

Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z by Borg3 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:00AM (#42439656)

I wonder if that memory usage is with X running. If yes, then Im very impressed. 32MB with X is very decent result.

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Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z by BSDobelix on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:04AM (#42439673)

It's even less, as you can see 18 of those 32MB are cached stuff, but this is without X.

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Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z by luke8086 on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @04:47AM (#42439915)

On the other hand, note it only shows 133MB of total mem, rather than 160MB that is installed. I believe the missing 27MB is used by the kernel (the kernel file itself is 23MB) and its data structures.

That being said, I suspect 64MB could be enough for console-mode work, and if you recompiled the kernel without any unused drivers, perhaps you could make it under 32MB.

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Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z by Borg3 on Friday December 20, 2024 @01:53PM (#42473737)

Ahh, w/o X. Okey, im less impressed. Also, cached is not counted towards used memory AFAIR. Total memory (roughty): Used + Free + Cached.

Thats my Linux VM w/o X:

MiB Mem : 3028.4 total, 2945.5 free, 19.7 used, 63.2 buff/cache

Xserver is running on my main OS.

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Re:Running NetBSD on IBM ThinkPad 380Z by hagbard_c on Tuesday December 17, 2024 @05:09AM (#42440029)

I used X11 on a 4 MB Toshiba portable with a 386SX CPU, it was slow but doable. This machine as a whopping 160 MB, that's hog's heaven compared to what X11 has been used on traditionally.

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