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Offline alu

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Question considering RAM
« on: March 29, 2011, 05:53:33 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.

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Re: Question considering RAM
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2011, 12:25:43 PM »
Make sure you do not have copy2fs.flg in your tce directory.

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Re: Question considering RAM
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2011, 12:46:16 PM »
i have it, but it is empty. should i delete it however?

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Re: Question considering RAM
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2011, 12:47:20 PM »
Yes. With it all extensions load to ram.
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Re: Question considering RAM
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2011, 02:14:44 PM »
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.

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Re: Question considering RAM
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2011, 02:59:22 PM »
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.
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Re: Question considering RAM
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2011, 03:26:50 PM »
thanks, mmmhhh... it's probably what happens, i did not pay attention to that.