On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote:
> On ARM, it's 90MB, I guess MIPS should be similar. > The man page says 65MB even in -9, but I guess they didn't count in the > code, libc, buffers and the likes. > > Trying to run unmodified Debian on 64MB is a suicide, I'd say the weakest > type that are going to run stock Debian are chroots on n900, which, with > 256MB, can handle all the phony stuff together with decompression just fine. > If you allow for everything but the decompression to be swapped out, even > 128MB would work reasonably. > > Anything lower and you go into emdebian, which repacks all the packages > anyway. > > Thus, I think there are no problems with enabling XZ on all architectures. My OpenMoko FreeRunner phone is an ARM device that has 128Mb RAM and runs pure Debian armel. Only time I need to kill things to during an upgrade is when I'm upgrading the locales package or lintian, creating locales files seems to take a lot of memory and the process gets killed sometimes. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktikjo2u4ez+yz_nupeqdu0bro9i3hioquupsj...@mail.gmail.com
