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

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

Bruce Smith wrote:

>>>However, I was bummed to find out that I cannot set the memory 
>>>to anything smaller than 32MB in VMware 4.  :-(
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>>VMWare 3 complained too, but after the error message I could press OK 
>>again and it saved it.
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>I haven't got VMware 4 to save it.  It automatically changes it back to
>32MB if I input anything smaller.
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You can try to set the OS within VMware to MSDOS or something.
I think VMware behaves differently then.

>>>What's the minimum memory usage down to these days?
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>>Good question.
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>The next time you test it, please let me know.  I'm curious.
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I think the lowest I got it working was 16 MB.
Unfortunately you can set  the memory in VMWare only in 4 MB increments 
and when I recall it correctly, it refused to boot with 12 MB

>>>Also, copying the config files to a blank floppy is still broke.
>>>I can take a look at it, if you're done with the boot script???
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>>Yes I'm done with the boot script.
>>The shell we currently use has a very limited "read" command.
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>Does ash support functions?  
>The error message said it couldn't find the proc "ask_yes_no".
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I don't know.

>I have a delay before I can do much with this.  My main development PC
>blew a CPU yesterday.  I don't think I've EVER seen a CPU go bad before,
>in ANY PC I've ever seen!  I'm amazed.  This one even died while the
>system was up and running (not powering up)!  Good UPS conditioned power
>too.  It's not that old of a PC either.  (1.7G P4)   Strange ...
>  
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That sucks !

cya
  Heiko