On 12/29/2012 1:31 PM, dmccunney wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Kerber > <dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com> wrote: >> On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote: >>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel <wb2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. >>> I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm >>> assuming a flexible definition of "run". >>> >>> How long did it take to boot? What could you do under it once it had? >> It likely boots much faster than a normal desktop because you get the >> memory usage down by turning off unneeded services and devices which >> take time to start up. >> >> We sell an industrial data collection machine based on XP that runs in >> about 80MB of allocated memory. We turn off the server service, themes >> and a couple others, along with unneeded devices, and have only tcpip v4 >> networking enabled. Doing a warm reboot takes about 20 sec IIRC from >> the time I click shutdown to the time it's back up taking data again. >> >> It still is manageable remotely with either remote desktop or >> pcanywhere, and runs 3 applications simultaneously that do our >> functionality, and send out the data in a continuous stream over the >> internet. The applications do have GUIs, though they are quite simple, >> being mainly status displays. > Sweet. I've done a fair bit of optimizing memory usage in 2K and XP > by pruning stuff run on startup and closing down unneeded services, > but I've never gotten RAM usage that low because I was configuring a > general purpose machine, not a dedicated one. (The XP box I'm posting > from at the moment takes about 270MB for XP itself from a standing > start. I could prune that more if I had to, but it would mean > compromises I'd rather not make, and since the box has 1.5GB RAM, I > don't have to.)
Yep, that's about as low as I've gotten a general purpose XP desktop as well, ~250MB or so, including an antivirus. > > Along those lines, a chap on the Puppy Linux forums got a working > Puppy installation in 16MB RAM. To do so, he had to take out > everything that *could* be removed and still have a working bootable > Linux image, and he had to actually build the image on a more powerful > machine, then transfer the drive to the ancient target system, The > end result was a dedicated media server that performed the intended > function on a box with 16MB RAM that he had lying around and wanted to > use. Now that's cool. I've never tried puppy linux, but I have heard it's good for that kind of application. > ______ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
