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   linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 09:22:53 JST linear cannon

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   the machine has 20MiB now (4 onboard + 16 via add-on board), but previously it had only 12 (4 + 8). and the stock NetBSD kernel takes a good 5MiB of that (5268kb, if you want to get more exact).
   
   which is part of why i wanted a custom kernel, to disable options i don't need and reduce the size of the kernel in memory. for example, i use this machine headless, so there's no point in enabling the support for its graphics device

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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 09:22:55 JST linear cannon

     my vax is now recompiling its kernel
     
     i believe this will be the third time i've had this machine build its own kernel. and the first time it did not have sufficient RAM for the task

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