LiveCD patch for low-memory systems (192K)

[Colin Watson]

[This should be on a development mailing list, surely?]

On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:15:22PM +0900, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> Hello, I have created a low-memory patch for the Ubuntu 7.10 LiveCD.
> This patch is based on compcache, see:
>   http://code.google.com/p/compcache/
> I have tested this on a 180MB VM and a 120MB VM with only-ubiquity. It
> worked in both cases.

Has this been brought to the attention of the Ubuntu kernel team? In
order to incorporate this, we'd need the necessary kernel modules to be
included in our kernel packages (linux-ubuntu-modules, I imagine), which
would definitely involve talking with them.

I'm assuming there are some downsides, on the "there ain't no such thing
as a free lunch" principle. Can this be limited to systems with (say)
<384MB of memory?

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]