Thread: 256mb for installable aplications?? Am I awake or is this only a bad dream?
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2009-10-02 , 10:15
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Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
Hmm, even boot times? That's interesting. I haven't noticed anything like that.
In fact I was comparing an "out of the box" Diablo install on the 256MB internal flash and an OS with many applications and widgets installed on the internal mmc, sorry for my inaccurate comment.

I've just tried to make a more valid comparison and copied my standard Diablo install to internal mmc (just rsync to an ext2 FS and reboot), and you're right, boot time is actually faster on mmc/ext2 than on the 256MB flash (25 seconds instead of 30). This test was done without any of the optimizations you described.

Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
you mean the internal 256MB flash? Well it is not a block device so there is no simple and effective way to swap to it. It would need some FTL that will emulate block device over it.
I assumed i could just mkswap and addswap the /dev/mtdblock4, but i won't even try as it's not that fast.

But I'll just try the high-speed sd/mmc kernel you talked about, thanks for the information (i'm already using the other tricks you described )