X-Original-To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Delivered-To: alpine-devel@mail.alpinelinux.org Received: from jeremythomerson.com (mail.jeremythomerson.com [74.117.189.150]) by mail.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED28DC00DC for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 18:55:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f44.google.com (mail-wg0-f44.google.com [74.125.82.44]) by jeremythomerson.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F30471CAFB for ; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:52:22 -0600 (CST) Received: by mail-wg0-f44.google.com with SMTP id dr13so2098263wgb.25 for ; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:55:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.180.83.130 with SMTP id q2mr4116092wiy.22.1352487336262; Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:55:36 -0800 (PST) X-Mailinglist: alpine-devel Precedence: list List-Id: Alpine Development List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: jeremy@thomersonfamily.com Received: by 10.194.173.130 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Nov 2012 10:55:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121109092802.GA2347@vaio.jimpryor.net> References: <20121109092802.GA2347@vaio.jimpryor.net> From: Jeremy Thomerson Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:55:16 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Minimal ram requirements? To: Dubiousjim Cc: Alpine-devel Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=14dae9cc92a43dbb2b04ce147f6d --14dae9cc92a43dbb2b04ce147f6d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 512MB would definitely be plenty. My home router has Alpine and is running a host of networking things, including: several separate VLANs / subnets, firewall, OpenVPN server, IPSec / GRE / Racoon / OpenNHRP mesh network, dnsmasq for internal DNS, and hostapd to act as a wireless access point. That's running on this an Alix 2D3 [1] (500MHz AMD Geode, 256MB RAM). Alpine on CF card, run from RAM setup. I'm typically using less than 50% of memory (so I guess you could theoretically squeeze all that onto 128MB RAM). [1] - http://store.netgate.com/ALIX2D3-P43C69.aspx rt01 [~]# uname -a Linux rt01 3.3.4-grsec #1-Alpine SMP Sat Apr 28 13:19:55 UTC 2012 i586 Linux rt01 [~]# free total used free shared buffers Mem: 254920 110972 143948 0 1708 -/+ buffers: 109264 145656 Swap: 0 0 0 On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Dubiousjim wrote: > Does anyone know what are minimal ram requirements for doing something > useful with Alpine? I don't mean absolutely bare minimum to run, but > something like a minimum recommended amount? I ask because I was adding > Alpine to some wikis listing lightweight or run-from-ram distros, and > some of these enumerate what the distros claim their ram requirements to > be. (Such as > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions_that_run_from_RAM > .) > > But I couldn't find any discussion of this anywhere for Alpine. If I > boot from an ISO (on a USB stick) and don't do anything further, about > 47 or 59 MB of RAM are in use. But I'd be surprised if it were possible > to usefully use Alpine on a machine with only 64 MB of ram. I expect 512 > MB of ram is plenty. In between??? I don't know. Does anyone have > relevant experience? > > -- > Dubiousjim > dubiousjim@gmail.com > > > --- > Unsubscribe: alpine-devel+unsubscribe@lists.alpinelinux.org > Help: alpine-devel+help@lists.alpinelinux.org > --- > > --14dae9cc92a43dbb2b04ce147f6d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 512MB would definitely be plenty. =A0My home router has Alpine and is runni= ng a host of networking things, including: several separate VLANs / subnets= , firewall, OpenVPN server, IPSec / GRE / Racoon / OpenNHRP mesh network, d= nsmasq for internal DNS, and hostapd to act as a wireless access point.
That's running on this an Alix 2D3 [1] (500MHz AMD Geode= , 256MB RAM). =A0Alpine on CF card, run from RAM setup. =A0I'm typicall= y using less than 50% of memory (so I guess you could theoretically squeeze= all that onto 128MB RAM).


rt01 [~]# uname -a
Linux rt01 3.3.4-grsec #1-Alpine= SMP Sat Apr 28 13:19:55 UTC 2012 i586 Linux
rt01 [~]# free
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0total =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 used = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 free =A0 =A0 =A0 shared =A0 =A0 =A0buffers
Mem: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0254920 =A0 = =A0 =A0 110972 =A0 =A0 =A0 143948 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 = 1708
-/+ buffers: = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 109264 =A0 =A0 =A0 145656
Swap: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00 = =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A00


On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 = at 3:28 AM, Dubiousjim <lists+alpine-devel@jimpryor.net&= gt; wrote:
Does anyone know what are minimal ram requir= ements for doing something
useful with Alpine? I don't mean absolutely bare minimum to run, but something like a minimum recommended amount? I ask because I was adding
Alpine to some wikis listing lightweight or run-from-ram distros, and
some of these enumerate what the distros claim their ram requirements to be. (Such as
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_di= stributions_that_run_from_RAM.)

But I couldn't find any discussion of this anywhere for Alpine. If I boot from an ISO (on a USB stick) and don't do anything further, about<= br> 47 or 59 MB of RAM are in use. But I'd be surprised if it were possible=
to usefully use Alpine on a machine with only 64 MB of ram. I expect 512 MB of ram is plenty. In between??? I don't know. Does anyone have
relevant experience?

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Dubiousjim
dubiousjim@gmail.com


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