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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Is the links-0.90 in BL3 also compressed with UPX?
>
> No.  Nothing in BL3 is compressed with UPX.
>
> > If not I could compress it to make more RAMdisk
> > space, right?
>
> To make more *storage* space.  However, when the
> executable is run it swells significantly (in RAM).
> Moreover the unpacking process takes a noticeable
> amount of time on an old PC.

When links-0.90 is unpacked into working RAM, does it still occupy 460K or 
so on ramdisk?  If so, upx'ing it would free up some ramdisk space and you 
say the kernel can make use of free space on the ramdisk as working RAM.
That would gain about 100K of RAM, I think, which might keep it from 
crashing as often without a swap file (for instance on the computer of a 
friend who does not want anything put on the hard drive).  On a friend's 
computer speed is unlikely to be a problem, but of course RAM is also not 
likely to be in short supply so I could actually run elinks (perhaps off a 
floppy disk).

I cannot find your instructions about running dd if=/dev/ram1 but I think 
they were enclosed in ____ .  Since this is a ramdisk version I cannot do 
anything but temporary damage.  You were trying to figure out whether the 
ram1 was still taking up space after umounting /usr/X11R6.