Re: Sarge - Minimum System Requirements
Dave Tapuska wrote:
> I had the main distribution installed on my P166 with
> 64mb of RAM running for the longest time. With a crash
> of the harddrive; I installed Sarge being that it very
> close to going gold. Running the machine for the past
> few days I am frequently experiencing out of memory
> errors in perl. So I investigated a little bit and see
> that the MemFree on the machine is fairly low; I have
> seen it get down to 1300kb. Now I have attached output
> from ps and top to show that there isn't really much
> running on the machine. Why is the kernel taking up so
> much memory ? I never had this problem in the past
> distributions I ran. Looking a minimal requirements I
> don't see how I could possibly get it running on a
> 16mb machine :-)
...
> Mem: 64106496 57204736 6901760 0 7970816
> 31293440
> Swap: 94920704 0 94920704
> MemTotal: 62604 kB
> MemFree: 6740 kB
> MemShared: 0 kB
> Buffers: 7784 kB
> Cached: 30560 kB
seem ok, linux uses the free memory (not used by apps) for caching and
buffers (for better I/O), cached memory is freed when needed by apps.
then, memory used by your apps is only 62604 -30560 -7784 (~25MB)
> SwapTotal: 92696 kB
> SwapFree: 92696 kB
your swap is not used, so 64MB is enough for your system.
maybe you have a problem with your perl script, or your hardware is
defective.
you should post this on linux.debian.user
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