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* Re: not enough memory for SELF!?
       [not found] <3C95D5E8.1C6989DD@imc-berlin.de>
@ 2002-03-18 12:54 ` Wolfgang Denk
  2002-03-18 13:02   ` Steven Scholz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Denk @ 2002-03-18 12:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steven Scholz; +Cc: LinuxPPC


In message <3C95D5E8.1C6989DD@imc-berlin•de> you wrote:
>
> I started playing around with Wolfgang's SELF and busybox.
>
> For now I have only 8MB RAM.

Add more :-)

> When I try to telnet into my board I get
>
> / # Out of Memory: Killed process 13 (sh).
> Out of Memory: Killed process 1 (init).
> The system is going down NOW !!
>
> I am using Linux-2.4.4-2002-02-14 from ftp.denx.de with TQM860L_config.
>
> What can I do?

There are several options:

* Add more RAM (which is obviously the  simplest  solution  from  the
  perspective of a software developer)

* Reduce the size of the ramdisk - it defualts to  4  MB,  but  AFAIR
  only about 2.5 MB are used

* Don't use a ramdisk at all, but instead put  your  root  filesystem
  into a cramfs or JFFS2 filesystem

* Optimize the kernel  configuration  by  throwing  out  drivers  and
  filesystems  you  don't  need; the default configurations is _very_
  generic (with NFS, ext2, cramfs, JFFS, JFFS2, msdos filesystems).

Hope it helps,

Wolfgang Denk

--
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Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87  Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88  Email: wd@denx•de
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* Re: not enough memory for SELF!?
  2002-03-18 12:54 ` not enough memory for SELF!? Wolfgang Denk
@ 2002-03-18 13:02   ` Steven Scholz
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Steven Scholz @ 2002-03-18 13:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Wolfgang Denk; +Cc: LinuxPPC


Thanks for your reply!

> There are several options:
>
> * Add more RAM (which is obviously the  simplest  solution  from  the
>   perspective of a software developer)
I will!

> * Reduce the size of the ramdisk - it defualts to  4  MB,  but  AFAIR
>   only about 2.5 MB are used
How? My pRamdisk is only 955068 bytes large.

> * Don't use a ramdisk at all, but instead put  your  root  filesystem
>   into a cramfs or JFFS2 filesystem
Hmm? Is there a HOWTO for doing this?

Thanks,

Steven

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