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

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

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>I just did a few more changes (already in CVS) and checked the memory usage.
>>You can boot now with only 22 MB of RAM.
> 
> Wow!!!

Just saw that I lied, I used 24 MB.
VMWare doesn't let you select 22MB.

>>I'm almost certain we can bring that down to 16 MB, when we use uclibc 
>>and static binaries within the Initrd.
>>The only question is if we want to do this.
> 
> 
> I don't know anything about uclibc.
> 
> What's the pro's & con's of using uclibc in initrd?
It is much smaller then glibc but doesn't have all functionality.
It should certainly be enough to get through the initrd.

> Is anything stuck using it after boot?

Should not.

cya
Heiko