On 15/09/2007, Daniel Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Angus McMorland wrote: > > Is there any way to reduce the boot's memory footprint, or free the > > available space back to the system's memory, for use by programs? > > the used ram depends on two things: > > 1. how large is the image if 'toram' is used
I don't know anything about this... I presume it's off by default? Incidentally, the whole image is only 300 MB. > 2. how many modifications to files are done > > due to a bug in live-initramfs, there is no 'noatime' and no > 'nodiratime', that means, not just files you have changed are consuming > ram (you can see the differences in /live/cow), but also files that you > touch end up in the ram. i hope to fix that soon. > > even with that bug, the standard system requires ~54mb during a boot > (due to some files that are beeing created/modified/touched). this > means, that you should looking into disable every service you don't need > at boot time to get ram usage down. Thanks, I'll investigate this course. -- AJC McMorland, PhD Student Physiology, University of Auckland _______________________________________________ debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
