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authoradrian <adrian@FreeBSD.org>2013-03-02 08:12:41 +0000
committeradrian <adrian@FreeBSD.org>2013-03-02 08:12:41 +0000
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Disable the ctl driver in GENERIC.
It unfortunately steals a fair chunk of RAM at startup even if it's not actively used, which prevents FreeBSD VMs of 128MB from successfully booting and running.
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@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW:
disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
+20130301:
+ The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
+ This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
+ initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
+ a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system
+ unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.
+
20130208:
A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please
refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.
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