ken mays wrote: [snip] > > Mark Martin wrote: [snip] > > 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. > > 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.
Booting plain OpenSolaris with a 32MB machine may be possible (remember original versions of Solaris 2.x had no problems with that) ... but MPEG-2 video stream playback will itself consume lots of memory since you have to do buffering, including I frames, data for the P/B frames etc. ... and system stream playback (system stream == interleaved video+audio streams) will require even more memory. I don't know whether this is possible... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.ma...@nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
