On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM, David Kerber <dker...@warrenrogersassociates.com> wrote: > On 12/28/2012 2:30 PM, dmccunney wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:23 AM, kurt godel <wb2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> XP2 will run in as little as 100 mb. >> I'll assume you've done so and will take your word for it, but I'm >> assuming a flexible definition of "run". >> >> How long did it take to boot? What could you do under it once it had? > > It likely boots much faster than a normal desktop because you get the > memory usage down by turning off unneeded services and devices which > take time to start up. > > We sell an industrial data collection machine based on XP that runs in > about 80MB of allocated memory. We turn off the server service, themes > and a couple others, along with unneeded devices, and have only tcpip v4 > networking enabled. Doing a warm reboot takes about 20 sec IIRC from > the time I click shutdown to the time it's back up taking data again. > > It still is manageable remotely with either remote desktop or > pcanywhere, and runs 3 applications simultaneously that do our > functionality, and send out the data in a continuous stream over the > internet. The applications do have GUIs, though they are quite simple, > being mainly status displays.
Sweet. I've done a fair bit of optimizing memory usage in 2K and XP by pruning stuff run on startup and closing down unneeded services, but I've never gotten RAM usage that low because I was configuring a general purpose machine, not a dedicated one. (The XP box I'm posting from at the moment takes about 270MB for XP itself from a standing start. I could prune that more if I had to, but it would mean compromises I'd rather not make, and since the box has 1.5GB RAM, I don't have to.) Along those lines, a chap on the Puppy Linux forums got a working Puppy installation in 16MB RAM. To do so, he had to take out everything that *could* be removed and still have a working bootable Linux image, and he had to actually build the image on a more powerful machine, then transfer the drive to the ancient target system, The end result was a dedicated media server that performed the intended function on a box with 16MB RAM that he had lying around and wanted to use. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122912 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
