Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used
> From tallison@tacocat.net Mon Jul 28 15:36:30 2003
>
>
> Alan Connor wrote:
> >>From ron.l.johnson@cox.net Mon Jul 28 09:19:38 2003
> >>
> >>
> >>On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 10:39, Alan Connor wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks to all. I've got 3.0 down to 15 megs of RAM with no X up and
> > screen running, and just two TTYs available, which is plenty. Next step is
> > to rebuild my kernel and remove a LOT of drivers I don't use at all.
> >
> >
> >
> > Alan
> >
>
> If you don't load the drivers, they won't take up any memory.
>
> Use lsmod to see what you are loading into RAM and modconf to change that
> configuration.
>
>
They SEEM to all be necessary to me, Ron, but I am not really sure...
$ /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
agpgart 20704 0 (autoclean)
ppp_deflate 38912 0 (autoclean)
bsd_comp 3936 0 (autoclean)
ppp_async 6688 1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 16908 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc 4480 0 (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
iptable_filter 1728 1 (autoclean)
keybdev 1664 0 (unused)
mousedev 3744 0
usb-uhci 20676 0 (unused)
hid 19104 0 (unused)
usbcore 53856 0 [usb-uhci hid]
ide-scsi 7552 0
ide-floppy 11840 0
unix 13412 4 (autoclean)
Wait! I can get rid of ide-floppy.
What's the unix module for?
Anyway, I am still pretty much running a stock kernel, and there's a lot of
stuff compiled in that I don't use.
Got to spend some serious time with /usr/src/2.4.19/Documentation/*
and my /boot/config* file...
thanks,
Alan
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