Calorie restricted OpenBSD
With Wim Vandeputte.
Running production systems on minimalistic
hardware
In this talk, Wim takes a survey of what possibilities and restrictions there
are running OpenBSD production systems on limited hardware, like the Soekris
hardware platform or small VIA motherboards booting from Compact Flash or
booting over PXE. When dealing with embedded hardware, several issues pop
up:
- overview of platforms and hardware choices. Small, smaller, smallest.
- installing and pruning the OS to fit on a small medium like a compact flash
- dealing with boot loader issues
- performance and tuning possibilities, dealing with limited resources
- crypto accellerators to the rescue
- storing logfiles and tmp files on CF
- remotely monitoring the system
- upgrading possibilities
Wim Vandeputte
Wim studied computer sciences and business management at the university of
Ghent, Belgium. He has been babysitting UNIX systems since 1994 and became
an OpenBSD developer in 1998. He's currently the OpenBSD booth bunny for
Europe, taking care of most of the logistics for the project and organizing
presence at way too many events.