256MB and 512MB differences?

[Mr_Loon]

Think you might have the wrong end of the stick, this is Ram that is being talked about, not the size of the Nand.

/tmp is a ram disk.
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Ah, I see. All these years and still a noob  :rolleyes: .

 

[WizardStan]

Ah, I see. All these years and still a noob  :rolleyes: .

To be fair, it isn't always a ram disk, it depends heavily on the distro.
On the 256MB test request, I plugged in my old CC Pandora, it powers up for a couple seconds, and then dies. I'm a little concerned but not so much as to try and fix it right this minute. Someone else'll have to check their Pandora.

 

[lunixbochs]

"tmpfs" is like a ram disk but can be paged out to swap: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmpfs

It defaults to 1/2 RAM, so that'd be 128MB on CC and 256MB on Rebirth/1GHz.

 

[xiongxioi]

You punks are such massive noobies, who need 512mb of ram when you can just download them for free?

downloadmoreram.com/‎





Ok, I'm just trolling. This is a site made to make fun of apple's mostly idiotic comsumer base.

 

[Wally]

Ok, I'm just trolling. This is a site made to make fun of apple's mostly idiotic comsumer base.

I guess i'm not one of the idiots

 

[Exophase]

There's one benefit for DraStic if you care, you can unzip larger ROMs to memory. I don't think it's a huge deal though, since you can just instead invest in a bit more storage space so you can unzip your ROMs (there's also an option to unzip ROMs to storage temporarily but it's kind of ugly)

For my sake it helps having more RAM, since I can open stuff like translation logs while the emulator is running with less risk of killing it.

 

[dimag0g]

Thank you very much, lunixbochs.


I was looking for options of how to organize my swap space, and I found that zram is the cleanest one and easy enough to use. On my 512 MB pandora I can easily get extra 400 MB of swap while giving away only about 200 MB to zram. Sounds fair enough.

 

[comradekingu]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swappiness Tune it yourself.

More ram uses a negligible amount of extra power. Depending on the number of banks and chans plus memory chips.

If you want to multitask heavily you can use finch, w3m, nano, ffmpeg and cmus