From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pat Gilliland Subject: Re: Init problems Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 14:48:18 -0400 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3D5D48F2.914C772@sympatico.ca> References: <20020816150352.GA6557@guests.deus.net> <3D5D8E86.4B0A@havn.com> <20020816160400.GC6557@guests.deus.net> <3D5D9832.5204@havn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org 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. >