On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:35, Joan Tur wrote: > Well there's something that's going to happen: the memory the kernel uses is > lower if you compile it with only the options you're going to need. 2 > examples: > > 1. Laptop, 224MB RAM, from 101 to 80MB (MDK 9.1): 21MB memory saved. > 2. Server, 72MB RAM: from 65,9MB to 57,4MB (MDK 9): 8,5MB memory saved. > > Amounts have been checked after booting, using a console, using top command...
I'm not sure that I'm reading your numbers correctly. Is 224M your total RAM on the laptop (I'm assuming a 256M machine with 32M allocated for video)? Is it possible that you're reading file/buffer allocated memory as free/not free? What does the following command report on both new/old kernels? dmesg|grep ^Memory This should report a kernel code number that, even in the most fully loaded kernels, shouldn't be greater than a couple Meg or so.
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