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?
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?