11.06.2010 09:10, Erich Titl пишет: > Andrew > > at 10.06.2010 22:19, Andrew wrote: > >> 10.06.2010 18:46, KP Kirchdoerfer пишет: >> >>> Am Donnerstag, 10. Juni 2010 16:44:05 schrieb Andrew: >>> >>> >>>> Hi all. >>>> >>>> I rebuild package tree forom scratch, also update dosfstools (it wasn't >>>> too hard - so it'll be in distro until I'll have time to split busybox >>>> into separate executables and modify packages for this), it seems that >>>> all important packages are OK - at least, they are built OK. >>>> >>>> IMHO it'll be good to assemble all in .iso, and place it as, for ex., >>>> beta-0 release... >>>> >>>> Also, question about kernel features that currently are disabled >>>> (support of swap, pcmcia, iscsi) is still actual - are they needed? >>>> >>>> >>> Andrew; >>> >>> AFAIK icsi was supported in Bering-uClibc 3 for building NAS boxes based on >>> LEAF. I doubt it's widely used, but why shall we remove it, if it works? >>> >>> PCMCIA might be an option as well, cause it allows using old laptops with >>> pcmcia cards to be used as small router... >>> >>> Swap dooesn't make much sense to me, but maybe someone corrects me here. >>> >>> kp >>> >>> >> Ok, I'll enable PCMCIA + iSCSI in kernel config and try to rebuild all >> tonight, IMHO - it'll good to make it as modules. >> >> I disabled it in my (alpha?) build for internal use, because it was >> unuseful for me. Possible, it'll require to update pcmcia and iscsi >> packages in tree. >> >> About swap - LEAF now use less than 64 MB RAM (on my test box with >> OSPF/SNMP/PPTP/PPPoE - ~55 MB for code + tmpfs and ~18MB cache, totally >> ~73MB) >> > Is this really the smallest footprint we can achieve with a 2.6 kernel? > It somehow feels huge to me. WRAP boxes typically came with 64MB and > this cannot be just raised by adding memory. > > cheers > > Erich > I didn't tried to achieve smallest footprint - I just wrote memory usage on my working box. Smallest footprint that I achieved from minimalistic LEAF box (booted from CD image, running in virtualbox - consists of base system packages + dropbear) - 10.6MB for code+FS and 4.6MB for cache.
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