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

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

> >>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.

Still, that's very good.

Most old PC's I've seen (that are still usable as a firewall) 
have either 32MB or 16MB, so 16MB would be a good goal.
If we don't get there, 32MB is still great!
 
> > 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.

Sounds like it'd be worth a try.

Doesn't initrd use all the utilities from busybox now?
If so, does busybox support uclibc?

 - BS