On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:57 +0100, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 04:40 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > and since some > > people like to run domains with much less memory, I'm inclined to say > > that this is 'wontfix' for squeeze. But I'm not sure just how small > > they are likely to be (while still running Debian). Maybe the cost > > isn't that significant. > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch03s04.html.en and > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch03s04.html.en both say the > minimum is 64M. > > We are talking about going from 128KB to 280KB reserved for the p2m. > Which for a 64M machine is going from 0.20% to 0.43% of RAM overhead. > > I'm not sure if <64M is realistic. I have a (32-bit, physical) machine I > use as a firewall which has 32M and apt-get and friends really do grind > along (it's also an old Pentium with a tiny disk, so there are other > factors in that). > > I think we are only talking about the limit for a 64 bit guest? I would > guess that those are more unlikely to be given tiny amounts of RAM > compared with 32 bit.
Yes, that seems reasonable. Let's do it (but after -39). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings 73.46% of all statistics are made up.
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