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2011-06-21
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#122
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do a force install. even if libblkid1 is missing, it works doing swapon. don't worry about it.
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2011-06-24
, 05:54
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#123
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if i js follow this step:
"For those who need more VM, and wish to use their entire MicroSD card for this purpose:
(WARNING: This will erase the entire MicroSD card, or worse, some or all of your internal memory if you mistype the device name.. If you plan to proceed, I recommend that you have some idea what you are doing)
In x-term:
Code:
sudo gainroot
mkswap /dev/mmcblk1p1
swapon /dev/mmcblk1p1"
i can increase my N900 RAM?? can u tell me weder it is risky or not? wha are the advanatages..i am a noob.plz help
"For those who need more VM, and wish to use their entire MicroSD card for this purpose:
(WARNING: This will erase the entire MicroSD card, or worse, some or all of your internal memory if you mistype the device name.. If you plan to proceed, I recommend that you have some idea what you are doing)
In x-term:
Code:
sudo gainroot
mkswap /dev/mmcblk1p1
swapon /dev/mmcblk1p1"
i can increase my N900 RAM?? can u tell me weder it is risky or not? wha are the advanatages..i am a noob.plz help
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2011-06-24
, 06:50
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#124
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Originally Posted by trisha02
it just increases your swap space. there is no way to increase more RAM. the only advantage is it removes swap from emmc hence emmc where your main memory resides is less loaded.
if i js follow this step:
"For those who need more VM, and wish to use their entire MicroSD card for this purpose:
(WARNING: This will erase the entire MicroSD card, or worse, some or all of your internal memory if you mistype the device name.. If you plan to proceed, I recommend that you have some idea what you are doing)
In x-term:
Code:
sudo gainroot
mkswap /dev/mmcblk1p1
swapon /dev/mmcblk1p1"
i can increase my N900 RAM?? can u tell me weder it is risky or not? wha are the advanatages..i am a noob.plz help
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2011-06-24
, 06:52
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@ Berlin, Germany
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#125
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This is not RAM, but swap: space on your mmc, which is reserved by the system in cases where RAM space is not sufficiant any more.
Most of the times this is not necessary, because there already is a ~750M swap preinstalled on the internal mmc, which is more than enough even for powerusers and on the faster internal card. You probably would know by now, if on your device swap is broken or missing.
Most of the times this is not necessary, because there already is a ~750M swap preinstalled on the internal mmc, which is more than enough even for powerusers and on the faster internal card. You probably would know by now, if on your device swap is broken or missing.
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2011-06-24
, 07:40
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#126
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You bro's do realise that:
1. Busybox-power has swapon with support for -p flag
2. Busybox-power won't really take up any extra space (like 256k)
3. With Busybox-power You can use a swapfile instead of partition (which seems to f**k some sd cards)
4. There is NO measurable benefit of 'striping' swap across SD and EMMC.
For maximum swap performance, create swapfile on a fast SD card and use that as swap.
Swapfiles are as easy as this.
1. Busybox-power has swapon with support for -p flag
2. Busybox-power won't really take up any extra space (like 256k)
3. With Busybox-power You can use a swapfile instead of partition (which seems to f**k some sd cards)
4. There is NO measurable benefit of 'striping' swap across SD and EMMC.
For maximum swap performance, create swapfile on a fast SD card and use that as swap.
Swapfiles are as easy as this.
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2011-08-23
, 07:21
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@ Mexico DF, Mexico
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#127
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Hey, in last kernel-power + busybox-power i get:
Whenever I use swapoff. What does it mean? Is Busybox-power's fault or Kernel Power V48?
swapoff: NO OPT p!
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2011-08-24
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@ Mexico DF, Mexico
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#128
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Ok, I found it's Busybox's fault, "upstream"... (not "busybox-power" really...)
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=113
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4087
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=113
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4087
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2011-08-25
, 12:23
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@ The Netherlands
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#129
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Originally Posted by strange1712
"Fault" might not be the right word since BusyBox marks bigger releases (1.18.0, 1.19.0, ..) as unstable by default. That's also why busybox-power 1.19.0 isn't promoted out of extras-devel yet (I'm assuming here that you know the warning that comes with using that repo).
Ok, I found it's Busybox's fault, "upstream"... (not "busybox-power" really...)
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=113
https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=4087
Anyway, busybox-power's swapoff works again in the latest extras-devel version (1.19.0power3). The version in extras(-testing) has always worked as expected
Last edited by iDont; 2011-08-25 at 12:25.
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2011-09-04
, 22:50
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Joined on Jan 2010
@ Spain
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#130
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Originally Posted by vi_
Does not work on my n900.
You bro's do realise that:
1. Busybox-power has swapon with support for -p flag
2. Busybox-power won't really take up any extra space (like 256k)
3. With Busybox-power You can use a swapfile instead of partition (which seems to f**k some sd cards)
4. There is NO measurable benefit of 'striping' swap across SD and EMMC.
For maximum swap performance, create swapfile on a fast SD card and use that as swap.
Swapfiles are as easy as this.
If I create a swap file to use it
Code:
sudo gainroot mkswap /media/mmc1/swapfile1
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/mmc1/swapfile1 bs=1024 count=786432
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swapon /media/mmc1/swapfile1
Code:
kill -s 9 PID
Last edited by WhiteWolf; 2011-09-04 at 22:52.
then i installed busybox power as u said, but still the same.
any tips?