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Subject: Re: running 2.4.2 kernel under 4MB Ram
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Amol Kumar Lad <amolk@ishoni.com>
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On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 19:54, Amol Kumar Lad wrote:
> Hi,
>  I want to run 2.4.2 kernel on my embedded system that has only 4 Mb
> SDRAM . Is it possible ?? Is there any constraint for the minimum SDRAM
> requirement for linux 2.4.2

You want to run something a lot newer than 2.4.2. 2.4.19 will run on a
4Mb box, and with Rik's rmap vm seems to be run better than 2.2. That
will depend on the workload.

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