Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Re: Linux Society Meeting / DL Intro -> Fantastic !!

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

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 20:15, Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> Oops that's not 40MB as you can see it's 40GB :-)
> I must have been somewhere else when I wrote that piece of code.
> I'll correct that to 40megs.

Where is the problem to keep a high number? The user will feel it, when 
his RAM is full. ;-)

> If we say that we need a minimum of 64 MB of RAM we have to make sure
> that the machine has some RAM left to start some programs. Even more
> in the case when we have no swap.

The system will tell you, when no RAM is left. ;-)

> 
> Heiko can you try a full install and give use the maximum SHMFS
> footprint in this case so we see some numbers to talk about.
> Maybe we should document the basis memory footprint and also the one
> for each package so the user can calculate if he needs more than 64MB
> of RAM.

That should be easy to calculate, unpack ramdisk size + unpacked package 
size

> 
> BTW patches to calculate the limit based on the amount of installed
> RAM are more than welcome ;-)

Then write one. ;-)

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   Heiko

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