[Sussex] New Lappy

[Alan F]

On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:52:50AM +0100, Gareth Ablett wrote:
> 
> # 66MHz Intel 486 DX2 Processor
> # 8Mb RAM 
> # 316Mb Hard Disk 
> # floppy drive, no cdrom
> # intel 14.44 pcmcia modem ( gonna dump this )
>

I'd give up hope of running X with it, even using twm. Console should
be ok, but it will probably use swap memory pretty quick and might
take a while to boot. Mine starts the bare minimum, I disabled things
like ldconfig and depmod in the rc scripts and would do those manually
if I ever needed to. I also use ash instead of bash. Since I'm using
it now here's some things:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:            14         10          3          0          1          6
-/+ buffers/cache:          2         11
Swap:           30          0         30

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND          
root         1  4.0  1.6   480  240 ?        S    05:12   0:03 init [3]         
root         2  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S    05:12   0:00 [keventd]        
root         3  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SN   05:12   0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0] 
root         4  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S    05:12   0:00 [kswapd]         
root         5  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S    05:12   0:00 [bdflush]        
root         6  0.2  0.0     0    0 ?        S    05:12   0:00 [kupdated]       
root         7  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        S    05:12   0:00 [kreiserfsd]     
root        61  0.4  4.8  1504  700 ?        Ss   05:12   0:00 /sbin/cardmgr    
root       116  0.0  3.5  1372  512 ?        Ss   05:12   0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -d -t 10 eth0
alan       172  0.8  3.4  1444  504 tty1     Ss   05:12   0:00 -ash             
alan       182  0.0  5.2  2284  756 tty1     R+   05:13   0:00  \_ ps wauxf
root       173  0.1  3.2  1336  468 tty2     Ss+  05:12   0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux                               
root       174  0.0  3.2  1336  468 tty3     Ss+  05:12   0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
root       175  0.0  3.2  1336  468 tty4     Ss+  05:12   0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux                                                                    
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2             459M  280M  179M  62% /