Tiny Core Linux

General TC => General TC Talk => Topic started by: alu on March 29, 2011, 02:53:33 AM

Title: Question considering RAM
Post by: alu on March 29, 2011, 02:53:33 AM

I have one question regarding RAM usage in Tinycore 3.51. I used Tinycore before 3.x releases with a computer with 256 mb RAM only, and i could use together:

mc
sylpheed
oo2
opera + flash
bash

It was no problem to have these apps running at the same time, it was a bit slow, but usable. Now, using tc 3.51 on another computer with 512mb RAM, the same programs are feeding almost all my memory, preventing me to use oo2 which I need most.

Do I do something wrong in my setup? In my boot line, I have tce=sda2 (usb device with plenty of space on it) and embed.

Title: Re: Question considering RAM
Post by: gerald_clark on March 29, 2011, 09:25:43 AM

Make sure you do not have copy2fs.flg in your tce directory.

Title: Re: Question considering RAM
Post by: alu on March 29, 2011, 09:46:16 AM

i have it, but it is empty. should i delete it however?

Title: Re: Question considering RAM
Post by: curaga on March 29, 2011, 09:47:20 AM

Yes. With it all extensions load to ram.

Title: Re: Question considering RAM
Post by: alu on March 29, 2011, 11:14:44 AM

thanks guys, i shall try this. since copy2fs.flg seems to be default -- as well as a text file -- would it be possible not to make it default. I believe that in earlier versions, the user had to create it in order to get apps loaded into memory. I say this because without your help, i haven't deleted it believing that nothing could happen since the file was a 0 bite one.

Title: Re: Question considering RAM
Post by: curaga on March 29, 2011, 11:59:22 AM

It is not the default, and never has been. You can also toggle it in appsaudit, perhaps that's how it was enabled for you.

Title: Re: Question considering RAM
Post by: alu on March 29, 2011, 12:26:50 PM

thanks, mmmhhh... it's probably what happens, i did not pay attention to that.