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

[Heiko Z. <hz...@pr...>]

On 07/22/2003 11:26:20 AM Bruce Smith wrote:
>I made a ISO with almost all binaries on CD, including all the binarie=
s
>listed in copy_base.lst.
>
>It boots in VMware with 44MB of memory, 40MB fails.
>
>After booting with 44MB, I can use "dd if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/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 ...    :-)

Not really. This behaviour will change once my boot process changes wor=
k.

Heiko
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