On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Keiran Sweet wrote:
> I have recompiled the kernel to disable modules, statically include the
> network card drivers, and all other hardware drivers, plus include all
> needed netfilter support.
Why bother with all that? Whats wrong with modules?
> All of this managed to get the kernel size down from about 2 megs(plus
> modules) to about 722k.
I'm surprised - I thought modules were supposed to keep memory use down.
Too many non-modules drivers in the kernel?
Still, I dont think you need have bothered. 64MB is more than plenty for
your purpose.
> My question is why i am constantly noticing that
> the systems memory is always
> becoming highly used, upon boot it uses 17megs of the 64 availiable, and
> i'll check back a day later to see it using about 62 megs of memory.
> I have asked a few people about this, and they have advised me that its
> due to HDD caching ect, ie, more writing/reading activity the more RAM
You just answered your own question. Unused memory will fill with disk
cache. What does the command "free -m" tell you?
Also "ps aux" will tell you pre-process memory use (virtual & resident).
> I have looked through a few books and havent been able to find much
dead trees? STFW , e.g.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=linux+memory-management+faq
http://www.mainmatter.com/linux-faq/sec6.html#AEN2058
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