Embedded X

[Otto Solares]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 09:57:37AM +0100, Robert Schwebel wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:25:10AM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > >> glibc chews up what, twenty megabytes?
> > >
> > > [citation needed]
> > 
> > $ dpkg -s libc6 locales | grep ^Installed-Size:
> > Installed-Size: 11452
> > Installed-Size: 11752
> 
> rsc at minime:OSELAS.BSP-phyCORE-trunk> dpkg --contents platform-phyCORE-i.MX27/packages/glibc_2.5_arm.ipk | grep libc-2.5.so
> lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2008-11-03 23:18 ./lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.5.so
> -rwxr-xr-x root/root   1116976 2008-11-03 23:18 ./lib/libc-2.5.so
> 
> Which is 1.1 MB, in a typical embedded scenario (ARM v5te, i.MX27).

uClibc:
-r-xr-xr-x    1 root     root       279360 Jul 26 09:04 /lib/libc.so.0

At runtime there are big differences in memory consumption too.

-0tto