On Monday 23 June 2003 08:56, Richard Bottoms wrote: >>This, generally speaking, isn't enough memory to do video. >> Buffering requirements for the filesystem alone will eat that up. >> I have no problems with half a gig, but no idea where the border >> case may be. > >I have a 1.2GHz machine on the way, this one is just for development > in the meantime. For this application I just need to grab one frame > of video, save it to disk, wait 10 seconds then grab the next. It's > for a security camera. > >So your belief is it's jusy not enough memory in the machine and > speed to do the job? My guess is that you would have to rebuild by going thru the kernel configuration, removing that which you don't need to get this one job done. Leave only one method of external access, like samba running, (which will require the networking unforch) and other things like that. The last time I booted with only 64meg on the old box, I was several megs into swap and cold syrup slow by the time it was booted. Trying a startx ran me out of swap before it had loaded any screen backgrounds. OTOH I did have an office machine that could run x(kde) on 64 megs, but setiathome took 2 days a packet. Adding another 128 megs brought that down to 14 hours. It was an 850 duron IIRC. If you don't have to look at the pictures, just store them for later access over the network or such, you might not be required to run x. All I can advise is to trim the fat one option at a time and try it. Write youself a kernel installer script that saves the previous version as .old stuff, setup the boot menu to give you a choice so that you can revert in case it won't boot at all on the new kernel. Then write another script that will delete the new stuff and rename the .old stuff without the .old so that you'd be protected from destroying the .old stuff with the next "buildit" run. I've been doing that here for years. >r.b. > > > > > >-- >video4linux-list mailing list >Unsubscribe > mailto:video4linux-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/video4linux-list -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
