1. Embedded Solaris

1 Embedded Solaris

This section describes the operating system-specific parts of OTP that relate to Solaris.

1.1 Memory Use

Solaris takes about 17 MB of RAM on a system with 64 MB of total RAM. This leaves about 47 MB for the applications. If the system uses swapping, these figures cannot be improved because unnecessary daemon processes are swapped out. However, if swapping is disabled, or if the swap space is of limited resource in the system, it becomes necessary to kill off unnecessary daemon processes.

1.2 Disk Space Use

The disk space required by Solaris can be minimized by using the Core User support installation. It requires about 80 MB of disk space. This installs only the minimum software required to boot and run Solaris. The disk space can be further reduced by deleting unnecessary individual files. However, unless disk space is a critical resource the effort required