[haiku] Re: Haiku on low memory systems
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:59:58 +0100
On 2010-11-04 at 18:52:48 [+0100], Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2010-11-04 at 18:42:48 [+0100], Alexander Baldeck <kth5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 11/04/2010 06:10 PM, David Given wrote:
> > > Actually, I did that! DamnSmallLinux CDs are *awesome*.
> > >
> > > The MBR loads, the screen goes black, and it hangs --- no diagnostics or
> > > anything. I'll try with qemu to see whether I can reproduce this
> > > behaviour with a restricted-memory image.
> >
> > I tried it here and of course it didn't boot in Qemu after setting the
> > limit to 48megs. Booted again with 512 and enabled the swapfile in
> > Preferences -> VirtualMemory, then set it back to 48 and voila, it at
> > least gave me the blue background and the mouse cursor which I can move.
> > The VM is obviously still working but takes ages to get to a useful
> > state I guess.
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't have KVM support here and not the time to wait
> > tonight but maybe you can use that hint. ;)
>
> Just tried that, too, and it fully boots (after quite a while), but
> launching any program first results in a heavy swapping orgy. Though,
> apparently even WebPositive works -- if you don't mind waiting a very long
> for your web pages. So, it's not very usuable, really. It might help, to
> cull things one doesn't need (the background image, servers (print, media),
> drivers,...). Good luck!
I forgot to mention: Booting off CD with that little RAM is hopeless, since
enough swap space is really mandatory.
CU, Ingo
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