Re: Size of net-snmp for embedded platform

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Wes Hardaker
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:43:39 -0500, "Hal Rosenstock" <[email protected]> said:
>
> HR> How small a memory footprint do you think is reasonable achieveable
> HR> before diminishing returns set in ?
>
> I think after you follow the instructions on that page we've reached
> pretty-much diminishing returns.

We've got it "down" to slightly under 400K mainly by following that
but that's still too large :-(

> In short, though, there is a bunch of code in the snmplib library that
> isn't really needed by the agent.

Is this the first place to analyze ?

> And there is a bunch in the agent that could be "optional".

More configuration options for these ?

> But nothing we're talking about is huge leaps
> of improvement.  There are just lots of small little projects that might
> be beneficial.  No there isn't a list; some of us that have been around
> the code for a long time could probably do some analysis and create a
> list, but even that would take a bit of time and isn't on our scheduled
> list of things to get done quickly...

Sorry to hear this. Such a list would be useful to those interested in
reducing the memory footprint but are newer to this code.

Thanks again.

-- Hal

> Wes Hardaker
> Sparta, Inc.
>

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