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

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

On 07/28/2003 01:40:47 PM 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.
>
>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.

I think so, too.

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

Oh yes it does. I'll give it shot.

We currently use ext2 for our shmfs, if we switch to minix we save at l=
east
another 1 MB. Any complains?
I actually never used minix before, but I expect that it supports the
"normal" file ownerships and permissions.

cya
  Heiko
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