Re: "System too big" patches/workarounds?

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
01 Dec 1999 10:25:15 +0100


tigran@sco.COM (Tigran Aivazian) writes:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> > Something "small" like slicing IPv4 into a module ? 250-300 kB..
> > (And ATM core, too..)
>
> Thanks, Matti, but I meant "any ideas, except the obvious ones below":
>
> a) moving some stuff into modules.
>
> b) going through as many statically declared arrays as I can find and
> reducig their sizes. This can help greatly, e.g. scripts/genkdbsym.awk has
> the value 7500 hardcoded and my kernel had around 15000 symbols so I upped
> the limit to 20000 realizing a minute later that it is much nicer to have
> it just above the actual number - 20000 is too wasteful, I can fit an
> extra network driver in that space :)

c) waiting for EFI to be wide spread

-Andi

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