Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:44:55 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: "System too big" patches/workarounds? |
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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matti Aarnio wrote: > Something "small" like slicing IPv4 into a module ? 250-300 kB.. > (And ATM core, too..)
Thanks, Matti, but I meant "any ideas, except the obvious ones below":
a) moving some stuff into modules.
b) going through as many statically declared arrays as I can find and reducig their sizes. This can help greatly, e.g. scripts/genkdbsym.awk has the value 7500 hardcoded and my kernel had around 15000 symbols so I upped the limit to 20000 realizing a minute later that it is much nicer to have it just above the actual number - 20000 is too wasteful, I can fit an extra network driver in that space :)
Regards, Tigran.
PS. Also, did anyone make a hack to rc.sysinit (rh61-based) to live on a readonly rootfs? I put something together yesterday evening (manipulating "transparent" ramdisks for /dev /etc /var and such) but if someone has done it better than me, I would like to know.
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