?drian L?vio wrote: > 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? > No clue, sorry. Haven't ever booted from MMC myself. I'd imagine that if you had a data partition on your MMC in addition to the root/boot partition, you could create a swapfile there. -- Ryan Pavlik AbiWord Win32 Platform Maintainer, Art Lead: www.abisource.com AbiWord Community Outreach Project: www.cleardefinition.com/oss/abi/blog/ "Optimism is the father that leads to achievement." -- Helen Keller "The folder structure in a modern Linux distribution such as Ubuntu was largely inspired by the original UNIX foundations that were created by men with large beards and sensible jumpers." -- Jono Bacon, The Ubuntu Guide
