Re: [Gc-linux-devel] Alive?

[Shaun J. <sja...@gm...>]

Hello Damian,

2005/11/4, Damian Gerow <dg...@af...>:
>> The other technique is to swap to a network block device (NBD) but I
>> haven't any canned instructions for that so you'll have to google to
>> figure it out.
>
> Hrm..  I've never heard of that.  I'll give it a shot, though I doubt it
> will help me out much.

Well, it will prevent the out-of-memory killer from slaying your
processes. Whether the performance is sufficient for your needs is
another matter, but I suspect you'll be pleased.

> That being said... do you know if the system is using uclibc or standard
> glibc?  Using uclibc would be a great way to minimize memory footprint of
> all libc-linked applications.  And is, IIRC, functionally a 1:1 replaceme=
nt
> for glibc (though feel free to correct me if I'm wrong).

I ran a Debian distro on my GameCube, which uses glibc. I don't know
of a uClibc [1] distro for the GameCube, but it would be a good fit
along with Busybox [2]. You could trying building your own uClibc
rootfs using Buildroot [3]. uClibc's goal is to be a drop-in
replacement for glibc. It may not meet this goal 100%, but its
coverage is very good.

Cheers,
Shaun

[1] http://uclibc.org
[2] http://busybox.net
[2] http://buildroot.uclibc.org