Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:56:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:56:15 -0400 Received: from rakshak.ishoni.co.in ([164.164.83.140]:9660 "EHLO arianne.in.ishoni.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:56:14 -0400 Subject: Re: running 2.4.2 kernel under 4MB Ram From: Amol Kumar Lad To: Alan Cox Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: <1035281203.31873.34.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> References: <1035281203.31873.34.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2-5mdk Date: 22 Oct 2002 20:31:43 -0400 Message-Id: <1035333109.2200.2.camel@amol.in.ishoni.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 926 Lines: 26 It means that I _cannot_ run 2.4.2 on a 4MB box. Actually my embedded system already has 2.4.2 running on a 16Mb. I was looking for a way to run it in 4Mb. So Is upgrade to 2.4.19 the only option ?? -- Amol On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 06:06, Alan Cox wrote: > 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/