Ryan Pavlik escreveu: > ?drian L?vio wrote: >> Mike Yue escreveu: >> >>> When I booted the N770 from internal flash memory, I couldn't run as >>> many apps as I booted from MMC card, so I thought the MMC card had >>> already done the job extending the real memory. >>> But, seems I was wrong. >>> Now my N770 is booted from MMC card ext2 partition(around 450MB). >>> From command "top", I can see only 64M memory there, and over 95% used: >>> >>> Mem: 60672K used, 1552K free, 0K shrd, 872K buff, 27736K Cached. >>> >>> From command "df", I can see the root filesystem(/dev/mmcblk0p2 is >>> the MMC card partition ext2, now mounted to /) >>> >>> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available >>> Use% Mounted on >>> /dev/mmcblk0p2 464324 158407 281945 >>> 36% / >>> >>> So, I am wondering if it is possible to extend the REAL memory to >>> MMC card, and if someone has done that job? >>> BTW, as the article(howto_easily_boot_from_mmc_card) said, the N770 >>> should run much faster than booting from internal flash memory, but >>> I don't see that difference. Did I do something wrong? >>> >>> Thanks for your attentions, and appreciate for any replies. >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> >> Look the table from >> http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/platforms/maemo/index.html#featured >> The 770 haves 64M of RAM memory. The use of the mmc card expands the >> memory avaliable to install programs (128M). Then using the MMC you >> got more spaces to install application, but you yet have the same >> memory to run programs. >> []s >> > This is not an accurate statement. The MMC card offers additional > file storage (it shows up in applications and the File manager). > Additionally, you can enable "extend virtual memory" which offers a > sort of "swap space" which lets you run more applications at once > (extending the 64mb built in ram with a slower flash-backed "hard > drive"). Using a standard 770, you cannot increase the amount of > space to _install_ applications: this is limited to 128. > > Booting from MMC (a rather complicated, advanced maneuver) lets you > install as many applications as will fit on the MMC card you purchased > - in this case, I believe the card will _not_ show up as "Removable > Memory Card" in the file manager or applications, as it is essentially > serving as the system's internal 'hard drive'-type device. > Hi Ryan Pavlik, Then, is possible to enable both solutions, boot from mmc and use swap in mmc?
