On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Jim Sibley wrote: > At 24m, I could login with ssh and mount 2 nfs volumes.
You're doing well. As always, (I'm sure you already know what I'm about to say, I'm only restating for completeness ;-) what you want to do with your machines dictates how much storage you need. Conversely, the smaller you make the storage, the less you'll be able to fit. I was playing with machines in the 16MB-32MB range when I wrote the "Porting LEAF" redpaper last year. I had similar results to yours, until I added extra interfaces (kind of a pre-requisite for a router). Then things really got ugly. Now, with Red Hat, If I try and IPL a router guest that has no swap device with anything less than 64MB, it fails. (Not that I'm trying to run without swap, just that a couple of times my systems came up without their swap and the results were quite unpleasant.) The IPL sort-of works, but then I can't log on. For routers, our current ROT is to start with 32MB and add 8MB for each qeth interface (real or virtual) defined. Cheers, Vic
