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clearer
22nd November 2008, 09:01 PM
I've had problems finding a good distro to use on my PS3 (which was bought as a cheap way to get a Cell processor to play with, mainly), and have had both Yellow Dog Linux 6 and Fedora 9 on it.

My woes with Fedora is the very large memory consumption, even without X running and just about no deamons. I have been unable to get memory usage (not including buffers and cache) below 100 MiB -- which may seem like that's quite low, but considering that I am effectively not running anything but bash and an ssh daemon, I'm really keen on finding ways to reduce it even further.

I am considering two alternatives to Fedora -- Yellow Dog Linux and building my own OS using Linux From Scratch, specifically for the Playstation 3 (which is really a very different machine from current common consumer computers).

So, anyone have any tips about how to reduce memory usage in Fedora 9 on a Playstation 3, with no X?

ayanematrix
22nd November 2008, 10:39 PM
http://www.yellowdog-board.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4063&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=2a6eef782f64b0940597e54080af03a0 discusses this in some detail. Some people that have followed some of the steps there have freed up more memory for the system.

Though, in my case, I've encountered a slight hiccup with my optimization. Interestingly enough, it's probably something to not having LVM compiled into the kernel.

clearer
23rd November 2008, 06:27 PM
Wow, that's a really nice article. I was considering doing something similar, but I would never have found all those tricks by myself.

JFReyes
24th November 2008, 01:22 PM
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=188886

Also look into optimizing the kernel. Good luck.