Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Q&A Forum => Topic started by: emninger on November 06, 2015, 12:08:07 AM
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When i checked the free diskspace by 'df' normally i got some lines with in the end sda1 (corrisponding to the first 9 lines). Now i
'm getting this: Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 899.6M 131.5M 768.1M 15% /
tmpfs 499.8M 0 499.8M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 14.5G 682.8M 13.9G 5% /mnt/sda1
/dev/sda1 14.5G 682.8M 13.9G 5% /home
/dev/sda1 14.5G 682.8M 13.9G 5% /opt
/dev/loop0 20.0K 20.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libXdmcp
/dev/loop1 12.0K 12.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libXau
/dev/loop2 208.0K 208.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libxcb
/dev/loop3 968.0K 968.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libX11
/dev/loop4 16.0K 16.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libXrender
/dev/loop5 28.0K 28.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libXext
/dev/loop6 16.0K 16.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libXrandr
/dev/loop7 44.0K 44.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libXpm
/dev/loop8 36.0K 36.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libSM
/dev/loop9 40.0K 40.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libICE
/dev/loop10 156.0K 156.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libXt
/dev/loop11 52.0K 52.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libXmu
/dev/loop12 28.0K 28.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libXi
/dev/loop13 28.0K 28.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libfontenc
/dev/loop14 268.0K 268.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/freetype
/dev/loop15 116.0K 116.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libXfont
/dev/loop16 1.2M 1.2M 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/Xlibs
/dev/loop17 92.0K 92.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libpng
/dev/loop18 116.0K 116.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/libjpeg-turb o
/dev/loop19 176.0K 176.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/imlib2
/dev/loop20 56.0K 56.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/imlib2-bin
.....
/dev/loop267 64.0K 64.0K 0 100% /tmp/tcloop/gettext-dev
Is that correct. In any case, since all this /dev/loop lines show up, i see that ram is much less used ... (??)
I'm aware, i've to learn a lot ;)
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I don't see a problem.
What exactly would these "some lines" look like?
Did df not display any lines containing /dev/loop before? In that case you may have been using the copy2fs feature, which means extensions won't stay loop mounted but their content is copied to RAM, which obviously consumes more RAM. But I guess you would know if you used this feature.
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I don't see a problem.
What exactly would these "some lines" look like?
Did df not display any lines containing /dev/loop before? In that case you may have been using the copy2fs feature, which means extensions won't stay loop mounted but their content is copied to RAM, which obviously consumes more RAM. But I guess you would know if you used this feature.
Thanks for the compliment, but you're overestimating my familiarity with tcl.
Makes sense to me what you're saying, indeed, before the loop lines where not displayed. But i'm unaware either to have activated or to have disactivated the copy2fs feature.
What are the advantages/disadvantages of copy2fs? Or could you gently point me to a link with some explanations?
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It's straight forward.
If the file /etc/sysconfig/tcedir/copy2fs.flg does exist, every extension that gets loaded will first be mounted, then its contents get copied to the file system in RAM, and finally the extension gets unmounted.
This makes it possible to remove the boot media and decreases access time to program files resulting in potentially increased overall system performance if plenty of RAM is available. Also results in slower boot times though.
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It's straight forward.
If the file /etc/sysconfig/tcedir/copy2fs.flg does exist, every extension that gets loaded will first be mounted, then its contents get copied to the file system in RAM, and finally the extension gets unmounted.
This makes it possible to remove the boot media and decreases access time to program files resulting in potentially increased overall system performance if plenty of RAM is available. Also results in slower boot times though.
Remove the boot media is not really my case (i deal with a netbook :D ). 1 gig of ram, nowadays si not anymore a lot, but for Tiny Core still huge, i presume. What would be your advice: use it or not use it?
I'm still in the basic setup and not in the fine tuning. But i hope, i'll get hibernate and suspend working, so booting time is not that much of an issue. Moreover, this netbook has a small but fast sata flashdisk ...
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Then don't use it.
I use it with my USB stick install of Tiny Core but for my netbook install I currently don't, because I'm preferring faster boot times as I reboot quite often when messing with system files.