Thread: Introducing console-tools v1 (install-tools replacemement)
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Valeria is offline Valeria
2009-01-03 , 19:33
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#83
Originally Posted by TheGogmagog View Post
I must be missing something. Isn't swap or virtual memory used when you don't have enough RAM? Like a desktop pc or the flash with 128, In those cases you would want a swap to simulate having 256 or a gigabyte. Now we are booting from a 2Gig or larger card. Don't we have plenty of RAM as long as we don't fill the memory completely? I suppose the partition would just be insurance.
Yes, you are missing something. Booting from a 2G card doesn't give you more ram, it gives you more room to install things. Ram is 128M in all N8x0m it doesn't matter where you boot from. The only way to increase that is enabling virtual memory or swap (better AFAIK). To see your ram (and swap) usage open the console and run "free" (without the "")
 

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