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Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:11:48 +0100
From: G?bor L?n?rt <lgb@viva.uti.hu>
To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
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Subject: Re: Any good reason why these is so much memory "reserved"?
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:40:59AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> G?bor L?n?rt writes:
> >On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:18:59AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote:
> >>       Recently, I have had occasion to build a system on a floppy
> >> for a 4MB machine that we use as a router.  In the past, the kernels
> >
> >I've played with this too. You can't use ramdisk easily on such a system.
> [snip]
> 
> 	We are using such a system and have been for years.
> If you'll reread my posting, you will see that it is about relatively
> recent changes to the kernel that apparently have broken this.

Yes, I know. My goal was only to show that newer kernels has got more
memory overhead but it was easy with older kernels so I only want to
say that you mentioned: it seems to be true ...

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