devil-linux-develop

[Devil-linux-develop] Memory requirements.

[Bruce S. <br...@ar...>]

I had a weird thing this morning while running save-config, where it
aborted in a very strange way (in VMware).  To make a long story short,
after a lot of traces, manual "tar" commands, and head beating, I
figured out it was because my VMware was set to 16MB of memory.

This is a fresh boot with a blank floppy.  It seems like there is enough
memory in 16MB to run tar, but when the "j" option kicks in, bzip2 loads
and aborts tar.

I increased my memory in VMware to 32MB and save-config runs fine there
(except for the "diff" part which I don't care about).

We might want NOT want to advertise DL will run in 16MB of memory, if
people cannot save their configuration on that size machine.  The other
option would be to use some busybox commands in save-config instead of
the standard ones ... (or not :)

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Bruce Smith                br...@ar...
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Memory requirements.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> I had a weird thing this morning while running save-config, where it
> aborted in a very strange way (in VMware).  To make a long story short,
> after a lot of traces, manual "tar" commands, and head beating, I
> figured out it was because my VMware was set to 16MB of memory.
> 
> This is a fresh boot with a blank floppy.  It seems like there is enough
> memory in 16MB to run tar, but when the "j" option kicks in, bzip2 loads
> and aborts tar.
> 
> I increased my memory in VMware to 32MB and save-config runs fine there
> (except for the "diff" part which I don't care about).
> 
> We might want NOT want to advertise DL will run in 16MB of memory, if
> people cannot save their configuration on that size machine.  The other
> option would be to use some busybox commands in save-config instead of
> the standard ones ... (or not :)

Damned. Of course that was a function I didn't test.
It's worth a try to use just for this function the busybox tar.
Can you take care of it? I have too many other things. I documented it 
on SF.

cya
   Heiko

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Memory requirements.

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > This is a fresh boot with a blank floppy.  It seems like there is enough
> > memory in 16MB to run tar, but when the "j" option kicks in, bzip2 loads
> > and aborts tar.
> > 
> > I increased my memory in VMware to 32MB and save-config runs fine there
> > (except for the "diff" part which I don't care about).
> > 
> > We might want NOT want to advertise DL will run in 16MB of memory, if
> > people cannot save their configuration on that size machine.  The other
> > option would be to use some busybox commands in save-config instead of
> > the standard ones ... (or not :)
> 
> Damned. Of course that was a function I didn't test.
> It's worth a try to use just for this function the busybox tar.

Are the busybox binaries available on the CD somewhere?  (where?)

> Can you take care of it? I have too many other things. I documented it 
> on SF.

Sure.  I'm going though a conversion at work now.  Hopefully I can get
to it this weekend or early next week.

 - BS

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Memory requirements.

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
> I had a weird thing this morning while running save-config, where it
> aborted in a very strange way (in VMware).  To make a long story short,
> after a lot of traces, manual "tar" commands, and head beating, I
> figured out it was because my VMware was set to 16MB of memory.
> 
> This is a fresh boot with a blank floppy.  It seems like there is enough
> memory in 16MB to run tar, but when the "j" option kicks in, bzip2 loads
> and aborts tar.
> 
> I increased my memory in VMware to 32MB and save-config runs fine there
> (except for the "diff" part which I don't care about).
> 
> We might want NOT want to advertise DL will run in 16MB of memory, if
> people cannot save their configuration on that size machine.  The other
> option would be to use some busybox commands in save-config instead of
> the standard ones ... (or not :)

Let's just fix our memory requirement at 32 MB.
Lower requirements are something for eDL.

cya
   Heiko

Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Memory requirements.

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> Let's just fix our memory requirement at 32 MB.
> Lower requirements are something for eDL.

Agree.  32MB is fine.

 - BS