[Devil-linux-develop] Memory usage.

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

I made a ISO with almost all binaries on CD, including all the binaries
listed in copy_base.lst.

It boots in VMware with 44MB of memory, 40MB fails.

After booting with 44MB, I can use "dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file ..."
to create about 15 MB worth of files in memory before it dies.

"free" seems to be fairly worthless in determining memory usage.

If I have 15MB free after booting with 44MB, why won't it boot in 40MB?

The biggest files still left in ram disk on my ISO are now the
libraries.  It'd be interesting to move them to CD also and see what
happens then.

Weird stuff ...    :-)

 - BS