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2009-11-21
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#332
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Originally Posted by somedude
guys can you report the total memory free after boot up and how much is available for the app?
Originally Posted by sadfist
Its Linux with 768MB SWAP so you cannot tell that way. For example my desktop with 8GB of RAM reports:
top is giving me 6796kb free with this window and the terminal open
edit: went up to around 20mb (wtf i cant type a tilde)
Code:
total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 8004 7952 52 0 587 4990 -/+ buffers/cache: 2374 5630
So its fairly safe to say a pretty large chunk of the 256MB is available for use.
That's one thing I was always both impressed and disappointed about Linux. The games it does have you get none of that "churn churn" when quitting like you do on Windows, it always seems to handle memory excellent and quit instantly. The disappointment being how few commercial games are natively supported.
Last edited by Alex Atkin UK; 2009-11-21 at 09:19.
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2009-11-21
, 09:38
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@ District of Columbia
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#333
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Originally Posted by amorek13
Why change the settings? Is that VPN like faster or something?
change your settings to internet2.voicestream.com
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2009-11-21
, 10:21
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#334
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Originally Posted by MNX1024
haha, nice! I was picking mine up at about that same minute!
Currently posting on my N900 at NYC Flagship Store!!!
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2009-11-21
, 10:32
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#335
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Originally Posted by somedude
after a clean boot:
guys can you report the total memory free after boot up and how much is available for the app?
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
~ $ free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 245548 197660 47888 0 3468
Swap: 786424 0 786424
Total: 1031972 197660 834312
~ $
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2009-11-21
, 11:22
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@ troll cave
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#336
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On Linux the "free" command doesn't give a good idea of available mem. Use "cat /proc/meminfo" instead. From meminfo the amount of "Available" RAM can be approximately counted as:
MemFree + Buffers + Cached + SwapCached.
10616+5184+69648+65652=151100
eg 150MB is "free" for a app. Even more can be freed by swapping more apps out, but that will slow down the phone.
The tilde "~" issue is clearly a big usability issue. It should somehow tell users that the "second row" is actually a modifier key row.
MemFree + Buffers + Cached + SwapCached.
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Nokia-N900:~# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 245548 234932 10616 0 5184
Swap: 786424 114760 671664
Total: 1031972 349692 682280
Nokia-N900:~# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal: 245548 kB
MemFree: 10616 kB
Buffers: 5184 kB
Cached: 69648 kB
SwapCached: 65652 kB
Active: 88048 kB
Inactive: 78396 kB
Active(anon): 46172 kB
Inactive(anon): 58544 kB
Active(file): 41876 kB
Inactive(file): 19852 kB
Unevictable: 20836 kB
Mlocked: 17832 kB
SwapTotal: 786424 kB
SwapFree: 671664 kB
Dirty: 0 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 86008 kB
Mapped: 51216 kB
Slab: 12160 kB
SReclaimable: 4168 kB
SUnreclaim: 7992 kB
PageTables: 6832 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
WritebackTmp: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 909196 kB
Committed_AS: 611480 kB
VmallocTotal: 122880 kB
VmallocUsed: 12944 kB
VmallocChunk: 77880 kB
eg 150MB is "free" for a app. Even more can be freed by swapping more apps out, but that will slow down the phone.
The tilde "~" issue is clearly a big usability issue. It should somehow tell users that the "second row" is actually a modifier key row.
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2009-11-21
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#337
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Yeah, the N900, but clearly some issues:
Within the first hour of using it last night while web browsing 1) the entire phone rebooted itself once, and 2) the web browser crashed on a separate occasion.
I can see #2 happening, but #1 should never happen. This is Linux and not DOS right?
There are some usability quirks for sure.
Also it's not letting me configure my Exchange server account, possibly because I use a self-signed cert? I'll have to look into this issue further.
I wish for a google-maps app. Absolutely critical - may try to get maemo mapper working, but I need google maps with up to date POI information. Using google maps in the browser is well, unusable.... hopefully in due course if Maemo gets popular enough google will release a native app (even Symbian had a native google app).
Within the first hour of using it last night while web browsing 1) the entire phone rebooted itself once, and 2) the web browser crashed on a separate occasion.
I can see #2 happening, but #1 should never happen. This is Linux and not DOS right?
There are some usability quirks for sure.
Also it's not letting me configure my Exchange server account, possibly because I use a self-signed cert? I'll have to look into this issue further.
I wish for a google-maps app. Absolutely critical - may try to get maemo mapper working, but I need google maps with up to date POI information. Using google maps in the browser is well, unusable.... hopefully in due course if Maemo gets popular enough google will release a native app (even Symbian had a native google app).
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2009-11-21
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#338
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Anyone knows if they still have the n900 in the NYC store? Do you still need to put the name on the list?
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2009-11-21
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#339
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This is all a bit worrying, non? Especially after the units supposedly being held back to iron out bugs...
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2009-11-21
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#340
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Guys seriously stop worrying about the memory, go find the other thread in the forums that discusses how Linux uses RAM. I really wish the free command was one they would get rid of as it just gives noobs a wrong impression.
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