Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:37:03 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.5 and lowmemory boxens |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Friday 18 October 2002 18:50, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > "Samium Gromoff" <_deepfire@mail.ru> writes: > > > > first: i`ve successfully ran 2.5.43 on a 386sx20/4M ram notebook. > > > > ... > > > > timer.c and sched.c have significant NR_CPUS bloat problems on SMP. > > Working on that. > > Oooh, yes! So 2.6 will be just fine for my smp dsl router... >
Reducing NR_CPUS from 32 to 2 shrinks the ia32 kernel by 380 kilobytes.
Figure half a meg or more on 64-bit machines.
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