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On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:

> > > (But I still have doubt if we can run linux on machines like that.)
> >
> > I sent you a series of articles about making Linux run in 1MB.
>
> After some time playing with the size of kernel,
> I was able to run linux in 6.6MiB of RAM. and the SLOB used
> around 300KiB of memory.

What is the minimal size you need for SLUB?