Remastered LiveCD HOGS memory

[Roberto Piscitello]

Aniruddha Shankar <karim <at> sarai.net> writes:

> 
> 
> Hi, all
> 
> Have been working on a remaster of Kubuntu for the Cybermohalla media labs,
> situated in working class localities in New Delhi. Unlike the vanilla EdgyEft
> Kubuntu LiveCD, our LiveCD is only borderline usable with 512mb of memory and
> totally unusable with 256 mb.
> 
> Are there some optimisations done to the filesystem.squashfs file to enable it
> to boot and work faster and/or with less memory required, such as the
> optimisations that have been done to KNOPPIX and accelerated KNOPPIX ?
> 
> When KNOPPIX is booted, it automatically activates any detected swap
> partition.
> Kubuntu does not do this (by design?).

I theory {k,x,}ubuntu should mount an eventual already present swap partition.
Actually this functionality doesn't work at all, because of bug #62868
(https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/62868).
I would be happy if you could test the "solution" I described on a comment of
that bug and continue the discussion on the bugtracker.

> On a system with low memory, it asks the user whether it should create and use
> a swap file on a local partition. Can the Kubuntu/Ubuntu LiveCD do this?

No, it can't _create_ a swap partition at startup at the moment, but I think
this feature would be really useful.
Probably a spec should be written in the wiki to start a discussion, but I fear
it's too late for Fiesty.

> 
> For more information about my remaster, please visit:
> 
> 1. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/2006-October/000362.html
> 
> Subsequent Changelog
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-in/2006-November/000365.html
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Aniruddha Shankar
> 
Ciao,
  robepisc