From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5 and lowmemory boxens
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:37:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DB08D0F.331E5FDB@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: E182ex9-0004yc-00@starship
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.
Not a huge amount. But not zero either.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-18 22:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-18 11:11 2.5 and lowmemory boxens Samium Gromoff
2002-10-18 11:35 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-18 16:50 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-18 21:46 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-10-18 22:37 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-10-18 11:54 ` jbradford
2002-10-18 14:21 ` Russell King
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