Smallest footprint "daily use" Linux installs.

[Don Erickson]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Hal Duston wrote:

> Yes, I don't run anything older than a Pentium anymore.

This secondary dns server since 1998 beats it.  The fans died years ago.

carp-derick:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : unknown
cpu family      : 4
model           : 0
model name      : 486
stepping        : unknown
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : no
cpuid level     : -1
wp              : yes
flags           :
bogomips        : 39.83


>
> root at charon:~# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
> cpu family      : 5
> model           : 2
> model name      : Pentium 75 - 200
> stepping        : 5
> cpu MHz         : 100.248
> cache size      : 0 KB
> fdiv_bug        : no
> hlt_bug         : no
> f00f_bug        : no
> coma_bug        : no
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 up
> bogomips        : 201.24
>
> root at charon:~# free
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:         12604      11888        716          0        736       5952
> -/+ buffers/cache:       5200       7404
> Swap:        31144       1436      29708
> root at charon:~# df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> LABEL=/               366M  262M   86M  76% /
> none                  6.2M     0  6.2M   0% /dev/shm
> root at charon:~# ps faux
> USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
> root         1  0.0  0.5    768    72 ?        Ss   Apr03   0:03 init [3]
> root         2  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        SN   Apr03   0:00 [ksoftirqd/0]
> root         3  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Apr03   0:01 [events/0]
> root         4  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Apr03   0:00 [khelper]
> root         5  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Apr03   0:00 [kthread]
> root         7  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Apr03   0:03  \_ [kblockd/0]
> root        10  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Apr03   0:00  \_ [khubd]
> root        12  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Apr03   0:00  \_ [kseriod]
> root        62  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Apr03   0:20  \_ [pdflush]
> root        64  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Apr03   0:00  \_ [aio/0]
> root       718  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Apr03   0:00  \_ [ata/0]
> root       808  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Apr03   0:00  \_ [kpsmoused]
> root      1042  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Apr03   0:16  \_ [rpciod/0]
> root     29259  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Apr30   0:09  \_ [pdflush]
> root        63  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S    Apr03   0:48 [kswapd0]
> root       889  0.0  1.8   1816   232 ?        Ss   Apr03   0:02 /usr/sbin/syslogd
> root       892  0.0  1.4   1672   188 ?        Ss   Apr03   0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 -x
> root       919  0.9  2.3   1692   292 ?        Ss   Apr03 841:54 /sbin/dhcpcd -d -t 60 eth0
> root      1000  0.0  0.0   3824     0 ?        Ss   Apr03   0:08 /usr/sbin/sshd
> root      2028  0.0  2.4   6548   312 ?        Ss   Apr03  31:14  \_ sshd: root at pts/0
> root      2030  0.0  7.5   2736   948 pts/0    Ss   Apr03   0:37      \_ -bash
> root     27266  0.0  7.0   2308   884 pts/0    R+   09:17   0:00          \_ ps faux
> root      2019  0.0  0.0   1668     0 tty1     Ss+  Apr03   0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
> root     25333  0.0  5.6   3840   716 ?        Ss   May08   0:37 /usr/sbin/ntpd -g -p /var/run/ntpd.pid
> root at charon:~# uptime
> 09:18:38 up 63 days,  8:31,  1 user,  load average: 0.08, 0.04, 0.00
> root at charon:~# cat /etc/slackware-version
> Slackware 11.1.0
> root at charon:~#
>
> --
> Hal Duston
> hald at kc.rr.com
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Regards,

-Don