Do a search for TinyX or Kdrive in google, it will show you some configurations you can use to reduce the size of your X to ~1Mb footprint and under 4Mb of memory. Although I haven't found much support with this so good luck. Hope this helps, let me know how you go. -----Original Message----- From: xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Damian Gatabria Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:59 AM To: xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Optimizing X for size and memory footprint. Hello I'm currently involved in the development of an in-house diskless thin client system which is based on Linux. I have to build network-bootable images that run an X session and then run rdesktop to give the user a Windows environment. I've already succeded for the most part, however there's some very old hardware that isn't worth upgrading (Pentiums with 16MB of RAM) that i'd like to be able to use. So here's my problem: I have already managed to make 3.5MB images that include Xfree 3.3 and take up about 18.5 MB of memory to run, which is ~2.5 MB more than I can afford. (Packing executables with UPX did wonders) I'm trying to find a way to get the X process to take up less than the current ~5.5MB of memory. Providing I'm interested in making this X installation support only one driver (svga), Is there any way to reduce the executable size/memory footprint by disabling drivers at compile-time? On a related note, there's also some features i don't need (Backing store, for example, as X will only open one fullscreen window) that i could, in this case, live without. I have googled for info on building X from sources but couldn't find anything useful beyond the usual 'make World' .. any suggestions will be very welcome. Thanks. Damian _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
