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On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 09:46:33PM -0400, Michael Mol wrote |
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> ...I'm considering x32 for its lighter memory footprint... |
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For server use, I assume that it'll be a textmode-console-only system. |
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There are probably better ways to lighten the memory footprint than x32. |
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I started off with the "default/linux/x86/13.0" profile, but even that |
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was pulling in stuff I didn't want... *ON MY DESKTOP MACHINE*. After |
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some trial and error, I found that beginning my USE variable with "-*", |
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and adding necessary stuff in package.use, is less work than editing |
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package.use and make.conf without "-*". The whole point of this |
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excercise is to have fewer unnecessary libs loaded. |
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Other memory-saving stuff includes switching over to uclibc (assumes |
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you have no proprietary binaries) and mdev and busybox. Add |
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"-fno-unwind-tables -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables" to CFLAGS for more |
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memory savings. See the short thread at... |
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http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.busybox/36695 The busybox people |
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are absolutely anal about saving memory. You can't go wrong following |
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their example. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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