Re: Init problems

[Pat Gilliland <gilliland@sympatico.ca>]

8088
640k ram
2x720 floppy

rc.sysinit and inittab stripped down, only one tty no extras.

Givens: I'm no guru, no experience with kernel programming.

A quick test reveals:

during boot
183k used leaving 457 k for user process

after boot, 
meminfom => 457K total 159k used 298 kb free

ps -a => root 27132 init
         root 27034 ps
         root 27622 -/bin/sash

640k physical ram - 298k "free" = 342 k required by a running stripped
down ELKS system => not going to make in 256k

I not sure if a recompile is going to help here without some fairly
in-depth knowledge of what can be tweaked or removed.

Depending on the exact model, it may be fairly easy to swap in a couple
of memory simms to bring the machine up to 640k.  If the ram is soldered
onto the mother board, it's probably not worth the effort.  If it's
socketed, it may be as simple as replacing the simms.

It may be an old machine, that doesn't mean it's not worth playing with. 
;)

Pat

Blaz Antonic wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > Ok that would explain it then. wonder if i can find some more memory for this thing.
> 
> Quite unlikely (it's _so_ hard to find anything for old machines like
> the one you have), perhaps something could come up in newsgroups ? But
> in my opinion you'd better get yourself another box, people throw things
> like this away so you might be able to get one for free somewhere.
>