Re: [PATCH 08/24] net, diet: Make TCP metrics optional

On Tue 2014-05-06 11:59:41, David Miller wrote:

From: josh@joshtriplett.org
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 08:57:03 -0700

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On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 11:23:27PM -0400, David Miller wrote:

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From: Andi Kleen <redacted>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 05:21:14 +0200

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What parts would you remove to get the foot print down for a 2MB
single purpose machine?

I wouldn't use Linux, end of story.

Maybe two decades ago, but not now, those days are over.

That's a self-fulfilling prophecy:

Making 2MB RAM machines today makes no sense at all.

The lowest end dirt cheap smartphone, something which fits on
someone's pocket, has gigabytes of ram.

Low end smartphone is quite high-end device :-). It only has to run for
few days on big battery.

I have programmable watch with <64K RAM. Yes, that one runs for months on
battery. 

The only entity looking backwards are the people making these
improperly provisioned systems.

There's nothing improper about small ammount of RAM to save power.

									Pavel



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