Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:54:41 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] swap=<device> kernel commandline |
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Hi1
> > Did you try to load an initrd on a low-memory machine? > > It shouldn't work and it probably won't ;) > > You must be really low on memory ;-) > > # zcat initrd.gz | wc -c > 409600 > > (ash, pwd, chroot, pivot_root, smount, and still about 82 kB free.)
Your solution requires 400K initrd _plus_ memory for ash and swapon. That might be easily 600K total. Yes I could imagine machine with freemem less than that. However such machines do not usually have swap available.
Pavel -- Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.
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