Re: debian etch sh3 and sh4

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 23 January 2008, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> On Wed, January 23, 2008 9:53 am, Paul Mundt wrote:
> > In 16MB you will always be bordering on thrashing just trying to do _any_
> > basic tasks. Your options are realistically limited to busybox or
> > throwing the damn thing out (the recommended option). Doing anything more
> > involved than that was pretty questionable back when the kernel used a
> > lot less memory, and trying to do builds in that environment is well past
> > absurdity these days. 64MB is painful, but at least workable.
>
> You really are like the Kerryman who, when asked how to get to Dublin said
> "well, I wouldn't start from here." :)
>
> I don't mind the thrashing if it gets me something that works and which
> can later be used as the basis of a "distro" - which is my aim here.
>
> Anyone know how stable swap over nfs is these days? Speed is a secondary
> consideration.
>
> NB: CF or similar isn't an option. In theory you could put a very small
> swap partition on the Dreamcast's VMUs but access to that is likely to be
> much slower even than NFS - as it would be rationed to 60 times per
> second.

i used to build on the dreamcast, but the swapping was terrible so i gave up 
and just bought a lantank as it has 64megs ;)
-mike

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