From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:03:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:03:38 -0500 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:1781 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 19 Dec 2001 08:03:34 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011219144636.03498a10@mail.teraflops.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011219144636.03498a10@mail.teraflops.com> To: Marko =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kentt=E4l=E4?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel memory usage optimisations? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 13:03:32 +0000 Message-ID: <7603.1008767012@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org marko.kenttala@teraflops.com said: > I understand that best area for saving memory usage is the C-library > but are there any other kernel areas? I'm thinking of dropping > swapfile support and maybe some other subsystems that are not needed > in embedded device. You could potentially remove block device support altogether. -- dwmw2