[debian-non-standard] Some questions about Debian on Asus WL-500g Premium

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Mittwoch 13 Februar 2008 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> Hello!

[...]

> From what I read the Asus WL-500g Premium would be a good choice, but I
> am wondering a bit about the memory footprint of Debian on it. On the
> VIA machine with iptables, pppoe, openntpd, of course SSH and more
> getty's than I would need on the Asus (or even on the VIA;) it requires
> about 10-12 MB which seems quite comfortable for me. I use Bazaar to
> have some revision control and wonder whether it might work on the Asus
> as well. I think it should work within 32 MB on VIA, considering the
> above memory footprint, but I do not know whether it might take more
> RAM on a MIPS architecture. Hmmm, I tested it on the VIA and it had
> upto 35 MB memory usage laut vmstat 1 on some basic operations. Could
> be a bit tough. Well but it has 14.5 MB cached at that time too.

Actually it should be a no brainer... I tested again with bzr and 
recognized that I looked at the wrong number in watch -n1 free ;)

With bzr memory usage raises to at most as about 20 MB without caches / 
buffers.

And after some hours of adsl routing on that via box I just had:

gayatri:~# free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        499636      24104     475532          0       1208      13636
-/+ buffers/cache:       9260     490376
Swap:            0          0          0

Thats about 9260KB which are actually used.

So this should run in 32 MB ;-).

Dunno how much caches linux will need in order to run comfortable. But if 
it takes about 8-15 MB in usual operation on the Asus there should be 
enough room for caches left.

BZW I ordered an Asus WL-500g Premium and two USB 2.0 sticks - one 
expensive high speed one and a cheaper "normal" one - yesterday ;-). I 
will let you know how it goes.

-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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