Hi Dan On Friday 25 July 2008, Organic Engines wrote: > After a whole bunch of thought it occurred to me that sound is > essentially real time and probably a resource hog.
I'd suggest using tools like top or htop to profile the system in order to identify the resource hogs - Sound doesn't consume much CPU time in comparison to some of the other stuff. If you are running Gnome or KDE desktop, replace it with a lightweight window manager such as xfce4 or fluxbox. > Any reason not to unload all those alsa, oss, snd and etc modules? None at all - Ultimately, you may well want to compile your own kernel optimised for the processor in question. > Ultimately network, printing, bluetooth and other stuff can go once > your system is working. Networking is very useful to have - The multimedia stuff can go, along with non-Linux file system support (retain ISO9660 & NFS). > The idea is getting toward what would be essentially an embedded > system. No fluff to distract your pc from doing it's machine control job. Yup - A minimal install should fit quite comfortably on a 500Mbyte partition and yet leave room for additional utilities. Regards, Paul. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
