Steve Lord wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 11:05, Seth Mos wrote:
> > On Thu, 2 May 2002, Mike Keefe wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > > I noticed that the Technical Specifications for XFS specified
> > > that at least 64 MB of memory is suggested for a Linux-based
> > > XFS system. What I'd like to know is: what is the smallest memory
> > > configuration that Linux XFS has been installed on and run
> > > successfully ?
> >
> > 12MB
> >
> > > Do you even see it as being feasible to run on a signle processor
> > > embedded
> > > system with 16 MB of main memory ?
> >
> > Others already are. Performance won't be stellar but it will do just
> > fine.
>
> There used to be some issues with filesystem recovery using a lot of
> memory, these should be gone now. I would not recommend 16M if you
> are looking for streaming data on or off the filesystem, other than
> that is should not be a problem.
>
> Steve
>
> >
> > Cheers
> > Seth
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>
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> Principal Engineer, Filesystem Software email: lord@xxxxxxx
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What if you were using direct i/o (O_DIRECT) to stream data from a 16M
system ? Would that still be as much of an issue - would the same
performance
considerations still hold ?
Thanks,
Mike Keefe
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