On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 10:20 PM Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On 10/5/18 2:54 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: > > > > Also the XFCE Spin rebased from 4.12 which was GTK2 based to 4.13 [1] > > which is GTK3 based because GTK2 is ancient and not really maintained > > anymore other than the occasional security or bug fix (if it even gets > > that these days). The xfce 4.13 release is also a development release > > on the way to the 4.14 stable release so it quite possibly could have > > issues but overall GTK3 is more reliant on and expects more HW > > acceleration so I'm not surprised about your experience at all. It's > > also the reason I don't recommend AllWinner based devices to people > > that wish to do GUI stuff, their best used for server/headless use > > cases. > > I am looking at the BananaPi M2 Ultra with its quad core, 2GB mem, and > native sata. Plus affordable for my budget. They are going to be for > servers, so the Mali GPU should not be at issue. Looks like there's reasonable support for it upstream although a quick look I don't yet see ATA support, not sure of the status there. > Other than I have a mess of Cubieboards, which one works better as a > desktop unit. Do you mean desktop support for Cubieboards or any device in general? > >> One difference I note is F28 has a swap partition, F29 does not. Now > >> during the initial stuff, no swap was used. Now I see 29KB of swap used > >> with 86KB memory free. > > So we use zram for swap in F-29, it preserves the mSD card due to > > wear, and is much faster, this isn't the problem. Basically up to a > > max of 50% of the RAM will be allocated to swap using lz4 compression > > and we generally see a 4-5 times compression ratio. > > How can I 'see' my swap partition? Free shows a 487304B swap with none > used. Yet. > > Nothing in fstab. Guess I better read up on zram. It's created as part of the zram-swap service. The swapon (no options) will show swap details, the zramctl cmd (no options) will show you size, utiliation, compression ratios etc. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list -- arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to arm-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
