Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Joerg Schilling <> | | Date | Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:44:11 +0200 | | Subject | Re: DTrace-like analysis possible with future Linux kernels? |
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Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se> wrote:
> It depends on your definition of "a few k" :-) > > http://elks.sourceforge.net/ > > It will run fine on an 8086 with 512 kBytes of RAM, but I its possible > to get by with as little as 200kByte of RAM.
But this would not be a UNIX system... (see my other mail).
> I work with embedded Linux systems and the standard configuration for > the stuff I do is with a small embedded processor such as the Motorola > MPC860 or the Axis Etrax 100 (about as fast as an i486) and 8MByte of > RAM and 4MByte of flash. It's really no problem running in 2MByte of > RAM and 2MByte of flash but then the system really just does one thing > such as initializing a routing table and then routing data back and > forth. To be able to get OpenSSL running in there and so on I really > need 8MByte of RAM.
If you don't try to run fancy stuff (like a GUI), I am sure that Solaris will run with a machine that has something between 2 and 4 MB of RAM.
Note that if you design new embedded hardware, you typically think in units of 16 MB.
Jörg
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