[Peeweelinux] General Information for Project

[Tom Schneider]

Barry Gershenfeld wrote:

>>How fast is CF when booting up? Would it be quicker than a hard drive?
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>CF is not as fast as a hard drive, from what I can find.  Especially
>on writes, which may not matter here.   One thing peewee does in
>this configuration (compressed ramdisk on memory card) on startup 
>is to copy the filesystem into RAM, which can take a few seconds.
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We're using disk-on-chip which is significantly faster than a hard 
driver for both reading and writing. (At least from what I've seen)  I 
would think that CF would be just as fast, but I'm no expert on these 
matters.

>>When people are talking about small linux distribution of PeeWee how small can
>>I get it?  I need to have MySQL and Perl installed - is this realistic in a
>>128MB card for example?
>>Paul Nuzzo
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>It ought to be enough.  Peewee is very small, so the question
>becomes, "how big is MySQL + perl ?"  I'd like to know
>that myself for future planning.
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Our testing shows that MySQL is roughly 10 megs for a base install 
(binary and empty database).  I'm not sure about perl. (we did java and 
that was another 5 megs after we trimmed down the JVM)  Ultimately we 
chose not do use MySQL because of licensing issues.  By the way, we're 
running on a 64 meg disk-on-chip and had postgres, the JVM, ppp, the 
latest kernel and a decent set of utilities running with room to spare.

>Barry
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