On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:10:38 +0100, Dom wrote in message <4f8d79de.20...@rpdom.net>:
> On 16/04/12 21:34, Aleksandar Kostadinov wrote: > > To anybody interested, debian wheezy can't run on 64MB RAM on i386. > > Or actually it can run but package management is unusable so all > > debian benefits are actually lost. > > > > I tried pulling the .deb files on another machine, then transfer to > > the old machine. But dpkg is killed on 95% reading database (I think > > OOM killer). It fails even if I try to install 1 package. > > I run a basic Wheezy system on old machines with 64MB or 32MB of RAM > on i386. I agree that the package management is almost unusable > without work. > > What I do for a start is run a cutomised kernel with just the > necessary drivers for those machines built in. Smaller kernel = more > memory free for other things. Any devices other than the built in > ones are supported via kernel modules when needed. > > Also, and this is the important thing, I have my own cut-down version > of the Wheezy repository running on a slightly more powerful machine. > By reducing the Packages file to just the packages that I use, the > time and memory needed to process them comes down from hours to a few > minutes. > > I realise that I'm not going to be able to keep these machines > running for much longer, but I'll keep trying for as long as I can. ..do the math on power, maintenance etc cost on keeping the old junk running vs doing it e.g in a virtual machine on a newer host iron, you may find that the newer iron adds academic profits such as learning to run virtual machines. ..then again, in some climates, you _may_ have a use for the 100W or 300W or so of waste heat generated by that old iron. ..waste heat value: Say 150W @ .5NOK/kWh and per year? arnt@celsius:~$ qalc 150W*1year*.5NOK/kWh to $ warning: It has been more than one week since the exchange rates last were updated. (150 * watt * (1 * year) * (0.5 * NOK)) / (kilowatt * hour) = approx. $110.73655 arnt@celsius:~$ -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120417221816.19dde...@nb6.lan
