Re: not enough memory for SELF!?

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

In message <3C95D5E8.1C6989DD@imc-berlin.de> you wrote:
>
> I started playing around with Wolfgang's SELF and busybox.
>
> For now I have only 8MB RAM.

Add more :-)

> When I try to telnet into my board I get
>
> / # Out of Memory: Killed process 13 (sh).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 1 (init).
> The system is going down NOW !!
>
> I am using Linux-2.4.4-2002-02-14 from ftp.denx.de with TQM860L_config.
>
> What can I do?

There are several options:

* Add more RAM (which is obviously the  simplest  solution  from  the
  perspective of a software developer)

* Reduce the size of the ramdisk - it defualts to  4  MB,  but  AFAIR
  only about 2.5 MB are used

* Don't use a ramdisk at all, but instead put  your  root  filesystem
  into a cramfs or JFFS2 filesystem

* Optimize the kernel  configuration  by  throwing  out  drivers  and
  filesystems  you  don't  need; the default configurations is _very_
  generic (with NFS, ext2, cramfs, JFFS, JFFS2, msdos filesystems).

Hope it helps,

Wolfgang Denk

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