Re: Qi-Hardware Nanonote group purchase?
Tom Buskey writes: > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Mark Komarinski wrote: > > On 09/05/2010 07:52 PM, Tom Buskey wrote: > > > > > > I have 2 systems running recent OpenBSD releases for SSH portals. One > > > is a Sun Sparc with 96 MB ram and the other is a VM with 32 MB > > > allocated to it. I'm not sure I could do that with any major current > > > Linux dist. Maybe Slackware on i386. Open + Net BSD installs seem > > > similar to Slack. > > > > I have Debian Lenny running on a Linksys NSLU2 (32MB RAM). > > And I run Ubuntu on a SmartQ 7 mid, an ARM based tablet w/ 256 MB and X11. > And apt-get works. > > Is there a Debian based dist for the MIPS (?) chip in the Bennote? There are two Debian MIPS ports--big-endian and little-endian: http://www.debian.org/ports/mips/ There are multiple ways of installing the little-endian MIPS build of Debian documented on the Qi Hardware website: http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Debian Caveat: http://sdschulze.dnsalias.org/~soeren/content/debian-nanonote-kernel.txt Debian is compiled with FPU support required. Our processor doesn't have any. Luckily, Linux can emulate it in software. Unluckily, this is very slow[...] I guess that might explain why Debian felt a little more sluggish on my FreeRunner than any of the OpenEmbedded-based systems did, too -- "Don't be afraid to ask (λf.((λx.xx) (λr.f(rr." ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Qi-Hardware Nanonote group purchase?
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: >> X reports a resident size of 40 MB, although how much of >> that (if any) might actually be video card RAM I dunno. > > I bet none of it is video-card RAM; a significant (not necessarily > majority, but significant) portion of the RAM `used by X', though, > is shared libraries that are also used by other processes--and those > are basically `gratis' since you'd be using them regardless. I'm approaching the limits of my understanding now, but: I note that several of the shared libraries you list are specific to the X server, and thus aren't shared by any other process. I've never used memstat before, but the manual page states that it reports "virtual memory". I was looking at the "RSS" (resident segment size) column of ps. Virtual size can include things which aren't main RAM. It would appear that memstat breaks out memory-mapped files, but how does it treat things like pages swapped to disk? (I wouldn't expect RSS to include RAM mapped from the video card, but I didn't know that for sure, hence my qualification earlier.) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
