Thread: N800 Memory Confusion
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2009-09-21 , 15:40
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Originally Posted by danny670 View Post
I think I got it all worked out. The only problem I have is now that I have done this my removable card does not work on boot unless I eject it and re-insert it?
you may have hit known bug, flashing fixed kernel fixes this

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...251#post264251
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2747

Originally Posted by danny670 View Post
Also, the performance is waaay down....is this normal?
Mostly it is faster or same. Right after boot or when you insert card the metalayer-crawler indexes cards for media and this is slow in general and can be much slower when system is on card (since system is both reading and writing same card at the same time). Once it is done it should be OK. Search this forum for metalayer-crawler, some people even disable it completely since it can be a pain.

osso-statusbar-cpu is good applet to have in status bar to see high cpu and I/O usage

Originally Posted by danny670 View Post
Why would you want to do that instead of just making the whole card available to your device?
having first partition as FAT can be easier for windows USB connectivity and also does not confuse Maemo system so much - first card partition is seen in File manager as storage card, it is automatically mounted to /media/mmcX, can have virtual memory configured in Control panel, ....

Maybe when using one partition over whole card metalayer-crawler may be confused and indexes the card twice (once for / and once for /media/mmcX) so it is even slower?
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