From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Steven Scholz Cc: LinuxPPC Subject: Re: not enough memory for SELF!? From: Wolfgang Denk Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:56:24 +0100." <3C95D5E8.1C6989DD@imc-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:54:13 +0100 Message-Id: <20020318125418.7C3E1109F1@denx.denx.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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 -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd@denx.de If this is a service economy, why is the service so bad? ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/