In message <39649719.6A828478 at lucent.com> Tom Roberts wrote: > > Ruedi.Hofer at ascom.ch wrote: > > In order to build a commercially successful product I have to reduce the > > footprint of the system. > > Having a quick look at the files showed me, that the largest files are the > > libs (libc.so.6 = 4M) ... as u all know. > > Initially I also thought I would have to strip down the libraries > to reduce their footprint. But then I realized that Linux is a demand- > paged system, and only the pages which actually get used will be > loaded into memory. In our case only memory is an issue, the disk > space required is not important. So making libc include _everything_
You have a disk, then. Ruedi is probably on an embedded system, loading a compressed initrd image from Flash into a ramdisk. Both flash and RAM are resources which get tight all too often. Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Email: wd at denx.de How many hardware guys does it take to change a light bulb? "Well the diagnostics say it's fine buddy, so it's a software problem." ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
