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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

I guess I don't know how to interpret the numbers, but omitting swm and 
MENU does leave more RAM free.  You said it was possible to run X in 4M 
RAM, presumably with swm/MENU.  If so, it should be possible without 
sw/MENU in 3M RAM since they take up over 1M RAM.  Please explain where my 
reasoning went wrong.

I just set loadlin to load BL3 with 4M RAM (mem=4M) and remarked out the 
second and third console (with #) in inittab.  I can dial ppp and telnet.  
Before dialing I had total 2724, used 2476, free 248.  After dialing I had 
used 2372 and free 352.  (How did dialing free up RAM???).  I can't check 
memory usage while telnetted since I have only one console now.

The kernel appears to be using about 2.1M RAM, since sh = 236 and init=124
used 2476, and total=2724.  If I have mem=4M why is total 2724 not 4M? 

What is the smallest amount of RAM BL3 can be run in with one vc and not
using X?  We have a laptop computer, this one with a good floppy drive,
enough space on the hard drive for BL3, but 2M RAM.


> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > Without swm/MENU Xvesa will let you run a 528K program in 3M RAM.
> > With swm/MENU you can only run a 252K program in 4M RAM. 
> 
> Your figures are badly wrong.  Have you actually tried 
> running an X program with 3mb RAM?  Obviously not.  

No, I did not know at the time how to set mem=3M. 

> 
> > Lynx and links need xli for viewing images, in BL3.
> > They will both run in 4M RAM without swm/MENU but not with them.
> 
> Did you actually try running links with xli in 4mb RAM?
> If you had, you would have seen that it's not viable 
> (because of massive swapping).

> Please test such things *before* presenting them here 
> as facts.

Okay, if you don't mind me asking how to test first.

> 
> Cheers
> Steven
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