[GRLUG] linux in 32 Megs

[Tim Schmidt]

On 10/5/07, Marc Zuverink <mzuverink at gmail.com> wrote:
> A base sys w/ no gui should run in as low as 4 megs.

These days, only if you compile your own kernel.

A line from dmesg on Ubuntu 7.04 on my current desktop:

Memory: 1287380k/1310144k available (1993k kernel code, 21504k
reserved, 900k data, 328k init, 392640k highmem)

22Mb used on startup just by the kernel and various buffers.  It'd
probably use less if it didn't have 1280Mb of ram to manage, but
general-purpose distributor kernels have long outgrown 4Mb of ram.

--tim