Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: "System too big" patches/workarounds? | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | 01 Dec 1999 10:25:15 +0100 |
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tigran@sco.COM (Tigran Aivazian) writes:
> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > Something "small" like slicing IPv4 into a module ? 250-300 kB.. > > (And ATM core, too..) > > Thanks, Matti, but I meant "any ideas, except the obvious ones below": > > a) moving some stuff into modules. > > b) going through as many statically declared arrays as I can find and > reducig their sizes. This can help greatly, e.g. scripts/genkdbsym.awk has > the value 7500 hardcoded and my kernel had around 15000 symbols so I upped > the limit to 20000 realizing a minute later that it is much nicer to have > it just above the actual number - 20000 is too wasteful, I can fit an > extra network driver in that space :)
c) waiting for EFI to be wide spread
-Andi
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