From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263626AbUHWLpX (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:45:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263540AbUHWLpX (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:45:23 -0400 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:58040 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263626AbUHWLpQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Aug 2004 07:45:16 -0400 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 13:44:11 +0200 To: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, christer@weinigel.se Cc: tonnerre@thundrix.ch, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: DTrace-like analysis possible with future Linux kernels? Message-ID: <4129D88B.nailA9B2DZO92@burner> References: <2vipq-7O8-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <2vj2b-8md-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <2vDtS-bq-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <412770EA.nail9DO11D18Y@burner> <412889FC.nail9MX1X3XW5@burner> <20040822192646.GH19768@thundrix.ch> <4128FE94.nail9U42DA799@burner> <20040822203321.GI19768@thundrix.ch> <4129055F.nail9V911J6JH@burner> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christer Weinigel wrote: > It depends on your definition of "a few k" :-) > > http://elks.sourceforge.net/ > > It will run fine on an 8086 with 512 kBytes of RAM, but I its possible > to get by with as little as 200kByte of RAM. But this would not be a UNIX system... (see my other mail). > I work with embedded Linux systems and the standard configuration for > the stuff I do is with a small embedded processor such as the Motorola > MPC860 or the Axis Etrax 100 (about as fast as an i486) and 8MByte of > RAM and 4MByte of flash. It's really no problem running in 2MByte of > RAM and 2MByte of flash but then the system really just does one thing > such as initializing a routing table and then routing data back and > forth. To be able to get OpenSSL running in there and so on I really > need 8MByte of RAM. If you don't try to run fancy stuff (like a GUI), I am sure that Solaris will run with a machine that has something between 2 and 4 MB of RAM. Note that if you design new embedded hardware, you typically think in units of 16 MB. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) If you don't have iso-8859-1 schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) chars I am J"org Schilling URL: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/usr/schilling ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily