[spauka]

One of the coolest revelations to me, just looking at the status page [1] is that the Wii only had 88 MB of RAM - split between 24 MB built in to the SoC and 64 MB of GDDR3.

Given that this is the case, ntpd using 15% of the system memory means it was using about 13 MB of RAM - hardly a huge chunk by today's standards but not small either. I wonder if reducing the number of time servers would improve this much? On my system I can see I'm tracking about 9 servers from the debian pool.

Compare this to the XBox 360 which even at the time had 512 MB, it's really amazing how much they managed to squeeze out of such a tiny chip.

[1] - https://blog.infected.systems/status/

[qingcharles]

I'm thinking back to my first NetBSD boxes in 1995 which must have run in 4-8MB RAM and ran a mail server, a webmail server I wrote, and multiple users logging in to play MUDs and sit on IRC.