Alpine Linux 3.23 - 23mb ram | 71mb disk - guide

somik · March 16

@sshbox said:

@AnthonySmith said:
Browser with js support.

Is that even theoretically possible with 128 MB?

Ofcourse! As long as you dont open youtube

AnthonySmith · March 16

@sshbox said:

@AnthonySmith said:
Browser with js support.

Is that even theoretically possible with 128 MB?

I have an idea or 2 on how to do it

sshbox · March 16

  alert('Hello, World!');

It supports javascript!!!

AnthonySmith · March 16

@somik said:

@sshbox said:

@AnthonySmith said:
Browser with js support.

Is that even theoretically possible with 128 MB?

Ofcourse! As long as you dont open youtube

Well yeah

I did just see a video of someone running powerfox on a really bad G4 Mac playing YouTube fine, quite impressive.

brian · March 22

have you tried boot it up on 64mb ram vm?

AnthonySmith · March 22

@brian said:
have you tried boot it up on 64mb ram vm?

yep, backtogeek.com is actually running on a 64mb VPS now.

somik · March 22

Some people here running their public site on 64mb RAM while I'm running my private home server on 128GB DDR4 RAM...

AnthonySmith · March 22

@somik said:
Some people here running their public site on 64mb RAM while I'm running my private home server on 128GB DDR4 RAM...

Haha, well to be fair I have been spec'ing up a 1TB ram dual E5-2699v4 on eBay with a ton of spinners to have a local internet, software and repo cache and llm, because I think the internet as we know it is going in a very bad direction.

wankel · March 22

@AnthonySmith said: I think the internet as we know it is going in a very bad
direction. (... <>...) been spec'ing up a 1TB ram dual E5-2699v4 on eBay with a ton of spinners to have a local internet

Hahaha, let's fork internet. Replace bulky servers with lean 48 MB half core variants while we're at it.

somik · March 22

@AnthonySmith said:

@somik said:
Some people here running their public site on 64mb RAM while I'm running my private home server on 128GB DDR4 RAM...

Haha, well to be fair I have been spec'ing up a 1TB ram dual E5-2699v4 on eBay with a ton of spinners to have a local internet, software and repo cache and llm, because I think the internet as we know it is going in a very bad direction.

Mine is dual E5-2695v4 with 128GB DDR4 at 2400 Hz with a Chinese Machinist E-ATX motherboard. Got the cpu+ram+mobo combo at 500 SGD (about 400 USD?)

I didn't go for 2699s due to the absurd price and high TDP. I mean my main use case is idling and using it on and off for home use...

If it was still before the RAM price hike, I would go for 1TB for bragging rights, but can't afford it anymore... Don't really have a use case anyway.

somik · March 27

Did the following on @Neoon's microlxc alpine container. Managed to bring down the usual 20mb to about 5mb

apk update
apk upgrade
apk del curl wget 
apk del $(grep "^P:" /lib/apk/db/installed | sed 's/^P://' | grep -E "^(cloud-init|cloud-utils|py3-|python3|pyc)")
apk del nvme-cli syslinux mtools numactl curl e2fsprogs-extra partx qemu-guest-agent qemu-guest-agent-openrc
apk del readline gdbm mpdecimal sqlite-libs yaml p11-kit libtasn1 gnutls nettle gmp libidn2 libunistring libexpat libedit libffi shadow tzdata libseccomp libncursesw libpanelw ncurses-terminfo-base
rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
reboot

Neoon · March 27

AnthonySmith · March 27

@somik said:
Did the following on @Neoon's microlxc alpine container. Managed to bring down the usual 20mb to about 5mb

apk update
apk upgrade
apk del curl wget 
apk del $(grep "^P:" /lib/apk/db/installed | sed 's/^P://' | grep -E "^(cloud-init|cloud-utils|py3-|python3|pyc)")
apk del nvme-cli syslinux mtools numactl curl e2fsprogs-extra partx qemu-guest-agent qemu-guest-agent-openrc
apk del readline gdbm mpdecimal sqlite-libs yaml p11-kit libtasn1 gnutls nettle gmp libidn2 libunistring libexpat libedit libffi shadow tzdata libseccomp libncursesw libpanelw ncurses-terminfo-base
rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
reboot

I bloody love containers (not docker) I was officially the words biggest OpenVZ hater for a while, then I realised the power of the dark side.

Such a shame OpenVZ died.

somik · March 28

@AnthonySmith said:
@somik said:
Did the following on @Neoon's microlxc alpine container. Managed to bring down the usual 20mb to about 5mb
apk update
apk upgrade
apk del curl wget 
apk del $(grep "^P:" /lib/apk/db/installed | sed 's/^P://' | grep -E "^(cloud-init|cloud-utils|py3-|python3|pyc)")
apk del nvme-cli syslinux mtools numactl curl e2fsprogs-extra partx qemu-guest-agent qemu-guest-agent-openrc
apk del readline gdbm mpdecimal sqlite-libs yaml p11-kit libtasn1 gnutls nettle gmp libidn2 libunistring libexpat libedit libffi shadow tzdata libseccomp libncursesw libpanelw ncurses-terminfo-base
rm -rf /var/cache/apk/*
reboot
I bloody love containers (not docker) I was officially the words biggest OpenVZ hater for a while, thæn I realised the power of the dark side.

Such a shame OpenVZ died.

Since I always had issues with OpenVZ configs, i avoided it. However ever since I started using proxmox and it's LXC containers, I've been using it for most of my deployments, except for VMs that need to be isolated...

As for docker, I am ashamed to admit that it is still the best way to distribute your program/app and be sure that it runs for everyone. I convert most of my script/programs/apps to docker and deploy them across my servers.

how · April 1

Cool!

hornet · April 1

@terrorgen said: checkout microvm

Is there a specific project, or just the technology in general that you recommend?

terrorgen · April 4

@hornet said:

@terrorgen said: checkout microvm

Is there a specific project, or just the technology in general that you recommend?

So far the qemu microvm implementation is the most interesting to me.

Alpine Linux 3.23 - 23mb ram | 71mb disk - guide

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