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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 22:34:55 +0100
From: Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap=<device> kernel commandline
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> Did you try to load an initrd on a low-memory machine?
> It shouldn't work and it probably won't ;)

You must be really low on memory ;-)

# zcat initrd.gz | wc -c
 409600

(ash, pwd, chroot, pivot_root, smount, and still about 82 kB free.)

- Werner

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