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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:54:41 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Werner Almesberger <Werner.Almesberger@epfl.ch>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] swap=<device> kernel commandline
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Hi1

> > 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.)

Your solution requires 400K initrd _plus_ memory for ash and swapon. That
might be easily 600K total. Yes I could imagine machine with freemem less
than that. However such machines do not usually have swap available.

								Pavel
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