On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:46:33PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote > ...I'm considering x32 for its lighter memory footprint...
For server use, I assume that it'll be a textmode-console-only system. There are probably better ways to lighten the memory footprint than x32. I started off with the "default/linux/x86/13.0" profile, but even that was pulling in stuff I didn't want... *ON MY DESKTOP MACHINE*. After some trial and error, I found that beginning my USE variable with "-*", and adding necessary stuff in package.use, is less work than editing package.use and make.conf without "-*". The whole point of this excercise is to have fewer unnecessary libs loaded. Other memory-saving stuff includes switching over to uclibc (assumes you have no proprietary binaries) and mdev and busybox. Add "-fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" to CFLAGS for more memory savings. See the short thread at... http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.busybox/36695 The busybox people are absolutely anal about saving memory. You can't go wrong following their example. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
