On Tue, 09 Mar 2004 14:23:40 CST, Kirk Strauser writes: >At 2004-03-09T14:33:56Z, Robert Waldner <rw@coretec.at> writes: >> 32 MB are plenty for Debian itself. I'm running Woody on an i386SX 16 MHz >> with 4 MB RAM without problems (installing was another matter, as the >> installer needs more RAM). >How?!? I was attempting to run a hand-stripped Woody system on a 486/66 >with 12MB of RAM and it took ages just to log in to a shell prompt. When I >was stripped, I mean that when I was in multi-user and looking at a bash >prompt, there were 12 entries in the process table. How do you manage with >4MB? It's doing duties as masquerading firewall, so since finishing setting it up, I only log in when security-upgrades are due. It's nowhere near fast, granted, a login via ssh2 takes 5 minutes or so, it swaps itself nearly to death when doing upgrades, but otherwise it works just fine. cheers, &rw -- / Ing. Robert Waldner | Security Engineer | CoreTec IT-Security \ \ <rw@coretec.at> | T +43 1 503 72 73 | F +43 1 503 72 73 x99 /
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