From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263162AbTJONWy (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:22:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263166AbTJONWy (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:22:54 -0400 Received: from dvmwest.gt.owl.de ([62.52.24.140]:35285 "EHLO dvmwest.gt.owl.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263162AbTJONWv (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Oct 2003 09:22:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:22:50 +0200 From: Jan-Benedict Glaw To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing Message-ID: <20031015132250.GH20846@lug-owl.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20031014143047.GA6332@ncsu.edu> <20031015114514.GC20846@lug-owl.de> <20031015130645.GJ765@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HNNtJsP7AmKg7nRJ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031015130645.GJ765@holomorphy.com> X-Operating-System: Linux mail 2.4.18 X-gpg-fingerprint: 250D 3BCF 7127 0D8C A444 A961 1DBD 5E75 8399 E1BB X-gpg-key: wwwkeys.de.pgp.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --HNNtJsP7AmKg7nRJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-10-15 06:06:45 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote in message <20031015130645.GJ765@holomorphy.com>: > On Tue, 2003-10-14 18:27:05 +0200, Maciej Zenczykowski > > wrote in message : > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:45:14PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > Right. For a real lowmem system (4MB RAM) I defined printk to a no-op > > and gained 90K at the compressed image IIRC. This was 2.2.x, though. > > MfG, JBG >=20 > The compressed image is hard to predict a runtime effect from; what did > it do to reserved memory at boot-time? I'm not sure since this it's quite long ago (TM), but the effect was of about 210K IIRC. The apps we had running on that box (think embedded) *really* liked that 200K extra RAM. It made the difference between "swap to death" and "nearly not swapping"... MfG, JBG --=20 Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B=FCrger" | im Internet! | im Ira= k! ret =3D do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TC= PA)); --HNNtJsP7AmKg7nRJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jUoqHb1edYOZ4bsRAuZ7AJ9LXj1c8T+bkt28Me3rZ0HsVJqV6wCfXATi P8CZQ9k0F98jV+QqM1ryFjQ= =IBvM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HNNtJsP7AmKg7nRJ--