On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Kfir Lavi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Markos Chandras <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On 17 January 2013 04:20, Kfir Lavi <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 15:46:11 Kfir Lavi wrote: >> >> > I have created a small Gentoo system. It is based on glibc. >> >> > When it starts, I see use of 84MB and free is 33MB. >> >> > Using 'free -m' command. >> >> > How can I debug this issue, in order to lower the memory footprint? >> >> >> >> run `ps aux`. find & kill all unused services. >> >> -mike >> > >> > I don't have much of un essential services. Just agetty. But its not >> much. >> > What I'm asking, is there a compilation way to reduce footprint? >> > I used here -O2. I'll need to check with -Os to see difference. >> > It seems to me that it takes too much memory for small system like this. >> > >> > Kfir >> > >> >> -Os is preferred for low memory systems. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 >> >> > I just killed some processes and arrived to bare system 64MB. > Now just sshd, bash and agetty are showing in ps aux as real processes. > The other are kernel processes. > The kernel is pretty lean. Should I expect 64MB as the initial system > memory use? > Can I lower it? > > Thanks, > Kfir > Oh, just to note: I'm using -minimal USE flag on this system, and get about 50 packages.
