Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> wrote:
On Mon, 2023-04-03 at 10:37 +0000, u34@net9.ga wrote:
I did nothing to make it use tmpfs. Should I explicitly take some actions to get it outside of tmpfs?
Hi,
no you don't need to take any action.
I suspect my other idea to disable tmpfs entirely is entirely idiotic.
$ df -h | grep tmpfs tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 16G 8.0K 16G 1% /tmp tmpfs 3.2G 64K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000 ^^^^Used^ Disabling tmpfs would probably even not really free those 72K.
If you should share RAM for the framebuffer, reducing the framebuffer size might make a difference.
I can't comment on "tinyconfig" or "localmodconfig", but this is what I would try.
Hello, I could compile tinyconfig. With localmodconfig, it seems to get nowhwre. I added a lot of swap sapce, more then my total RAM. It seems to use only a tiny part of the swap addition. I don't know what it was exactly doing. I won't be surprised if it mostly transfered data from swap to RAM and vice versa. Doing negliable work, if at all, while swaping in and out. I hope the most beneficial item of this message is to mention the 6GB at the URL in the reply of Damjan Georgievski. https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/users/80dccca1a3964851a69e37d36e681a00/ -> https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.3-objtool . Though I don't know how much more, or less, than 6GB will be actually required to compile linux for, and on, a low end desktop. -- u34
Regards, Ralf