--- On Thu, 1/1/09, Roland Mainz <roland.ma...@nrubsig.org> wrote:
> From: Roland Mainz <roland.ma...@nrubsig.org>
> Subject: [osol-discuss] Memory requirements of Solaris/OpenSolaris... / was:
> Re: [tools-discuss] Project Proposal -- Port to MIPSarchitecture
> To: "Mark Martin" <storycraf...@gmail.com>
> Cc: emancipation-disc...@opensolaris.org, "Open Solaris"
> <opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org>, tools-disc...@opensolaris.org,
> "powerpc" <powerpc-disc...@opensolaris.org>, "on-disc...@opensolaris.org"
> <on-disc...@opensolaris.org>
> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 2:16 PM
> Mark Martin wrote:
> >
> > [Resent for Reply-all]
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Martin Bochnig
> <mar...@martux.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > +1
> >
> > Except that it would be nice if somebody would
> make the
> > Polaris port functional, before starting a new
> port.
> > Also, why MIPS, not ARM? Isn't MIPS dead a
> bit?
> >
> > Thanks for the vote and the feedback.
> >
> > I believe the PowerPC is either lacking consensus on a
> platform or
> > lacking other resources (or both). I agree that the
> PowerPC has some
> > attractive features, but lack of a valid, available
> platform and
> > resources I think is contributing to its dormancy. I
> believe that
> > interest continues for that platform, but once Sun
> Labs discontinued
> > development support, the project seems to have gone
> into hibernation.
> >
> > Someone mentioned interest in an ARM a short while
> ago, but in my
> > research, I could not find a solid, available platform
> that provided
> > enough physical resources -- namely 256MB to 512MB
> RAM,
>
> Assuming you only use UFS and cut-down some system
> tuneables Solaris can
> run on a 64MB machine (my Ultra5 only has 128MB now after
> one of the
> DIMMs failed and it still works fine with CDE). The
> problems start if
> you want to run some of the memory-hogs, e.g. ZFS, JAVA or
> a X11 server
> - then you either need a swap device or much more memory.
Hi Roland,
You should take to the 32MB of RAM level. How about playback of MPEG-2 streams
or MP3 audio using OpenSolaris in a 32 MB RAM embedded environment solution.
Ken
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