Re: 2.5 and lowmemory boxens

[Andrew Morton]

Daniel Phillips wrote:
> 
> On Friday 18 October 2002 18:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > "Samium Gromoff" <[e-mail]> writes:
> > > >    first: i`ve successfully ran 2.5.43 on a 386sx20/4M ram notebook.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > timer.c and sched.c have significant NR_CPUS bloat problems on SMP.
> > Working on that.
> 
> Oooh, yes!  So 2.6 will be just fine for my smp dsl router...
> 

Reducing NR_CPUS from 32 to 2 shrinks the ia32 kernel by 380 kilobytes.

Figure half a meg or more on 64-bit machines.

Not a huge amount.  But not zero either.