Re: running 2.4.2 kernel under 4MB Ram

Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
22 Oct 2002 11:38:34 +0200


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On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 20:54, Amol Kumar Lad wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to run 2.4.2 kernel on my embedded system that has only 4 Mb
> SDRAM . Is it possible ?? Is there any constraint for the minimum SDRAM
> requirement for linux 2.4.2

2.4.2 was not a good kernel (not unless you patch it to death with 2.4.3
and 2.4.4 stuff) and especially the VM blows chunks. I'd recommend
either using the 2.4.9-ac VM or 2.4.18 with either the -aa or rmap vm
for small machines.

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