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

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

Bruce Smith wrote:
> I had a weird thing this morning while running save-config, where it
> aborted in a very strange way (in VMware).  To make a long story short,
> after a lot of traces, manual "tar" commands, and head beating, I
> figured out it was because my VMware was set to 16MB of memory.
> 
> This is a fresh boot with a blank floppy.  It seems like there is enough
> memory in 16MB to run tar, but when the "j" option kicks in, bzip2 loads
> and aborts tar.
> 
> I increased my memory in VMware to 32MB and save-config runs fine there
> (except for the "diff" part which I don't care about).
> 
> We might want NOT want to advertise DL will run in 16MB of memory, if
> people cannot save their configuration on that size machine.  The other
> option would be to use some busybox commands in save-config instead of
> the standard ones ... (or not :)

Damned. Of course that was a function I didn't test.
It's worth a try to use just for this function the busybox tar.
Can you take care of it? I have too many other things. I documented it 
on SF.

cya
   Heiko