Greetings;

  I'm in the process of rebuilding my farm, which I plan to set
up with all the dedicated crunchers having no local drives at 
all, simply booting from a server. This approach requires creating
a ramdisk to use as the root Linux filesystem.

  I've found a good article on doing this at:

	http://frank.harvard/edu/~/coldwell

and plan to model my setup on this. One of the issues that he mentions
is memory usage; there needs to be a minimum of 64MB for the root
filesystem, plus some for the application (BOINC and S@h in this case)
and whatever workspace the application needs.

  So, if anyone can tell me what the total memory requirement for the
Linux kernel, BOINC, S@h, and workspace is, I can start getting the
extra memory together and install it as I prep each of the nodes.

  Thanks,


  Gary

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