Re: Any good reason why these is so much memory "reserved"?

2000-12-05 Thread Gábor Lénárt
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:40:59AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: > Gábor Lénárt writes: > >On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:18:59AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: > >> Recently, I have had occasion to build a system on a floppy > >> for a 4MB machine that we use as a router. In the past, the

Re: Any good reason why these is so much memory "reserved"?

2000-12-05 Thread G?bor L?n?rt
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:18:59AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: > Recently, I have had occasion to build a system on a floppy > for a 4MB machine that we use as a router. In the past, the kernels I've played with this too. You can't use ramdisk easily on such a system. We used root

Any good reason why these is so much memory "reserved"?

2000-12-05 Thread Adam J. Richter
Recently, I have had occasion to build a system on a floppy for a 4MB machine that we use as a router. In the past, the kernels that we have listed something like 400kB as the amount of memory "reserved" when they boot. Now, they claim to reserved 4MB when configured with

Any good reason why these is so much memory reserved?

2000-12-05 Thread Adam J. Richter
Recently, I have had occasion to build a system on a floppy for a 4MB machine that we use as a router. In the past, the kernels that we have listed something like 400kB as the amount of memory "reserved" when they boot. Now, they claim to reserved 4MB when configured with

Re: Any good reason why these is so much memory reserved?

2000-12-05 Thread G?bor L?n?rt
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:18:59AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: Recently, I have had occasion to build a system on a floppy for a 4MB machine that we use as a router. In the past, the kernels I've played with this too. You can't use ramdisk easily on such a system. We used root

Re: Any good reason why these is so much memory reserved?

2000-12-05 Thread Gbor Lnrt
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:40:59AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: Gbor Lnrt writes: On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:18:59AM -0800, Adam J. Richter wrote: Recently, I have had occasion to build a system on a floppy for a 4MB machine that we use as a router. In the past, the kernels I've