Greetings People

I finally "fixed" my Empeg: the reason was a faulty drive cable (as suspected). In fact, the middle connector was the dodgy one (as speculated).

Anyway, in order to run Samba (I believe somebody needed to do this so that they could use Windows software to do stuff on files on the Empeg) and Apache, the only support from the kernel needed is System V IPC. This increases memory consumption by about 27K. Moreover, this cannot be had as a loadable module (not that loadable module support is enabled to begin with). Note that both Samba and Apache will run out of the box if IPC is present in the kernel.

Typical RSS of Apache (1.3.9 from Debian) is about 1.3 MB. Typical RSS of Samba (smbd + nmbd, 2.0.7 from Debian) is about 1.1 MB. Of course, these need not be run at the same time, and Apache can be configured to run minimally.

Regards
Amit