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Title: Less than 64M RAM available?
Post by: javamatte on October 29, 2004, 10:58:54 am
I reflashed my 5500 for the first time last night, and everything went fairly
smoothly (once I realized that my first SD card would be faster if I set it
on fire   )

I am using the Cacko/Crow 64-0 ROM (for sl-5500) and the updated Cacko kernel.
Everything seems to be running great, but when I pull up the System Info app,
it shows the Total Memory as 46280k.

Shouldn't this be much closer to 64000k?
Title: Less than 64M RAM available?
Post by: lpetroni on January 25, 2007, 07:23:20 pm
Quote
I reflashed my 5500 for the first time last night, and everything went fairly
smoothly (once I realized that my first SD card would be faster if I set it
on fire   )

I am using the Cacko/Crow 64-0 ROM (for sl-5500) and the updated Cacko kernel.
Everything seems to be running great, but when I pull up the System Info app,
it shows the Total Memory as 46280k.

Shouldn't this be much closer to 64000k?
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Old question with no reply but recently flashed Cacko/Crow and was surprised to see the same behaviour. Why?

Any clues?
Title: Less than 64M RAM available?
Post by: lardman on January 26, 2007, 05:12:52 am
Is the missing memory allocated as a ram-disk in the same way the original Sharp images worked?

what does 'cat /proc/meminfo' show?

I'd expect a small amount of memory to be missing in an OZ image to mount things like /tmp, /var in a tmpfs (though I don't know whether Cacko does this), but certainly not 17Mb straight after boot (I assume that's where you are). If you've actually been doing things, and do have a tmpfs, then (on OZ at least) it's allowed to grow up to half the available memory, so you might want to check this too.


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