Derek Martin wrote:
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:21:12AM -0400, Jason Stephenson wrote:
Can you even get a working X in under 32 MB these days?
Sure.
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND root 1531 1.3 10.6 30236 20420 ? R Jun21 28:57 X :0
Note the RSS (amount of memory in physical RAM) is 20MB.
Check it out. This is on FreeBSD 5.1, so YMMV.
PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
590 jason 96 0 73440K 65392K select 49:10 0.00% 0.00% mozilla-bin
517 root 96 0 91564K 86956K select 19:52 0.00% 0.00% XFree86
532 jason 96 0 4640K 3604K select 7:41 0.00% 0.00% blackbox
20036 jason 96 0 13052K 11192K select 1:58 0.00% 0.00% emacs
That's with a 64MB Radeon 7000 PCI with DRI enabled running at 1280x1024 at 16 bpp. It's nice having 1 GB of RAM, as you can see here:
Mem: 126M Active, 533M Inact, 118M Wired, 33M Cache, 111M Buf, 190M Free Swap: 2027M Total, 2027M Free
FreeBSD automatically does 2x RAM as swap, unless you manually configure your swap partition at install. I usually go with this default, but on this machine, I've never used any swap.
As it turns out, my first instinct was correct and the original poster was asking about disk space. I'm afraid that I won't be very helpful in getting X to work on such a small amount of disk space. I've not done it before, so have no pointers or tips. The smallest Linux install I ever did was Slackware 4 minimal install with no X. Got a working system in less than 72 MB. (To me, a working system includes compilers, headers and certain libraries. I'm a programmer, before and after all.)
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