On Tue, 4 May 1999, Cary O'Brien wrote:
> I wouldn't give up on a 4MB machine. I've run X, ethernet, and diald on
> a 4MB laptop (But quickly bought more ram!). For a diald server with
> all the other stuff turned off this may well be enough. All you need
> running are inetd, syslogd, a mingetty for 4 virtual consoles, diald and
> pppd. It might fit. The worst that will happen is it will swap itself
> to death when you try to connect.
I have run all that stuff on a 4MB machine happily.
One more trick you can use: you don't have to run a getty on the console.
Just set up ALT-Uparrow to be the KBrequest (it is by default in the
default keymap) and edit inittab to run open which starts up a getty on
the next free terminal. When no one is logged in to the console, no
getty.
Of course, another critical factor is the size of the kernel. Every
little extraneous bit of code should be stripped out of the kernel.
You should compile a custom kernel on a big, fast machine and transfer it
to the router on a floppy disk.
You might even be able to get by with less than 4MB. You can run some
benchmarks on another machine to see what your maximum memory requirements
are for various configurations.
Ed
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