Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Limited RAM - how to save it? | Date | 5 Nov 2001 12:21:51 -0800 |
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Followup to: <20011105125231.A3783@microdata-pos.de> By author: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@microdata-pos.de> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > I'm working on a 4MB linux system (for a customer) which has quite > limited resources at all: > > - 4MB RAM > - 386 or 486 like processor (9..16 BogoMIPS) > - < 100MB HDD > - Quite a lot user space running:-( > > For me, 4MB seems to be a problem. I've stripped diwn the applications > quite a lot, but 4MB behaves very slow and unresponsible. Adding only > one more MB solves any performance problem! I've made a small patch > practically removing printk() from kernel which helps a lot (patch > attached below). Basically, the running kernel is ~160KB smaller! > Are there further methods of saving space? I've already done some > other things, but these don't help that much: >
4 MB was the practical minimum for even the very early versions of Linux. I would probably suggest backrevving to 2.0 (which is still maintained) or even 1.2 (which isn't) for a start...
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