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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Performance Tweaking The Collie (5500) -- Hentges

« on: September 12, 2005, 11:10:04 am »

Legend has it that SanDisk SDs do not play nicely with 5500s. Maybe try a different brand of SD card - borrow one from a friend or something.

Damn. Never would have thought of that. That would explain *most* of my issues, since I'm running (as much as possible) off of the SD card. Shyte. Is there a preference of brand? Any of them stand above the rest?

Thanks again,
Caconym

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Performance Tweaking The Collie (5500) -- Hentges

« on: September 09, 2005, 10:30:05 am »

Another little question - I presume you're running a 64-0 kernel? If not, I would do to give your Z more RAM to cache things in, etc.

Yup, Hentges (latest) 64-0.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Performance Tweaking The Collie (5500) -- Hentges

« on: September 09, 2005, 08:59:42 am »

You could try overclocking...

I didn't think OC'ing a 206mhz would make a huge difference. I've had a PIII 333 up to 600 (stable), but since there's no fan or extra cooling in a Z i'm a little worried about burnout. Experiences?

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Trouble Turning Sl 5600 Back On

« on: September 08, 2005, 04:22:07 pm »

Read up on on the r21 kernel patch. It's already in the Hentges ROM and directions for upgrading from the original OZ 3.5.3 ROM are on the main site:
http://openzaurus.org/wordpress/2005/07/27...rnel-on-collie/
This patch gets rid of the on/off button issue. This is a well known/discussed bug.

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Angstrom & OpenZaurus / Performance Tweaking The Collie (5500) -- Hentges

« on: September 08, 2005, 03:29:38 pm »

I've mucked around with OZ 3.5.1,2,3, GPE and Opie, Hentges, and Daniel Steen's Rboot, etc, and my problem is this: They all have features I love, but none of them is as good as all of them. Specifically, I'm talking about performance.

Hentges is the easiest to use and the best initial configuration, but running straight off SD (even with 1Gb) it's just not that quick. Command-line mp3 players skip when playing off the SD (and maybe that's just the speed of the card). Not to mention the fact that I have to rerun ipkg-link every couple of installs to make sure everything's linking the way it should. Seems like the Rboot method (using a disk image) runs faster and eliminates the need for re-linking, but the current OZ kernel (openzaurus.org) won't get me past configuring modules before it craps out. (Guess I'm waiting for 3.5.4...) I'd love to boot into an image from Hentges, but I can't get the image built first. So anyway:

1) How would I transfer my current config into a new disk image? Would copying everything into a loop0 mount give me the exact same stuff? Does the rboot "copy" script get everything it should?

2) Looks like rboot's "modify_init" screws up the altboot init scripts.. should I just skip this step and assume altboot will recognize my new disk image? Does it need to be named something different (jffs.something?) or an FS different from ext2?

3) Is there a better FS than ext2 for speed in a disk image? Does it have to be ext2? Why is jffs preferred in the initrd? Does it work better on flash RAM?

4) Would there be any advantage to be gained by creating an additional image for a swapfile (per dropbear)?

I know all the things I'm mulling are really just ways to push the 5500 beyond it's hardware limitations, but someone has to have figured these out by now...

Thanks to all for your help, I've gotten tons of solid advice from the board in the past and you guys (esp Mickey and Mattias) make one hell of a user community.

Caconym
[SL 5500 currently Oz 3.5.3 a la Hentges
32Mb Sandisk CF
1Gb Sandisk SD
Spectrum24 Wifi (802.11b)]