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From: Dotan Cohen on 5 Apr 2010 18:50
> Unfortunately there is no option to upgrade the memory on the system.

If the problem is acquisition of the memory, then let me know exactly
what you need and I will try to snail-mail it to you. My university
has a computer-recycling corner and I can dig through there a bit.
Memory shouldn't cost me too much to mail.

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From: Ron Johnson on 5 Apr 2010 22:00
On 2010-04-05 17:40, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> Unfortunately there is no option to upgrade the memory on the system.
>
> If the problem is acquisition of the memory, then let me know exactly
> what you need and I will try to snail-mail it to you. My university
> has a computer-recycling corner and I can dig through there a bit.
> Memory shouldn't cost me too much to mail.
>

Since the CPU is a SoC, I wouldn't be surprised if there were no
DIMM slot.

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From: Stan Hoeppner on 6 Apr 2010 06:20
Tech Geek put forth on 4/5/2010 11:36 AM:
> Hi,
>
> So I did get a chance to add swap to my system and guess what it made a
> significant difference. I had two instances of iceweasel, one instance of
> gedit, 3 gnome-terminal window open and the system is still running pretty
> decently. I know there is always the debate between how much Swap is
> sufficient - for my purpose, first I added 256 MB of swap file on the
> installation partition and then I reduced to 128 MB of swap and the system
> was still responsive. I don't know how far low I can go but for now it looks
> it will do the trick. I am so relieved that swap solution worked out pretty
> fine. I did not want to move to another distro because I like Debian a lot!

Glad to hear it's working better for you now.

> I wonder if there is a way by which the swap dynamically grows in size as an
> when required?

Swap use is dynamic, exactly as you describe. What isn't dynamic is the
on-disk structure in which the kernel stores the swapped pages. AFAIK, that
must be statically defined in terms of size either for swap partitions or
swap files. Disk space is so cheap, and swap space is such a small fraction
of modern disks, that the coding effort is not anywhere near any payoff
achieved with truly dynamic sized swap structures.

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From: Stan Hoeppner on 6 Apr 2010 06:40
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/5/2010 8:55 PM:
> On 2010-04-05 17:40, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>> Unfortunately there is no option to upgrade the memory on the system.
>>
>> If the problem is acquisition of the memory, then let me know exactly
>> what you need and I will try to snail-mail it to you. My university
>> has a computer-recycling corner and I can dig through there a bit.
>> Memory shouldn't cost me too much to mail.
>>
>
> Since the CPU is a SoC, I wouldn't be surprised if there were no DIMM slot.

That's how it appears:
http://www.vortex86.com/index2.html

It has a fixed 128MB which is apparently not socketed but soldered to the
board. I can't completely confirm this as there is no full board picture,
or board diagram, but merely a functional block diagram showing a fixed 128MB.

The board itself is aimed at set top box and other fixed system embedded
applications, not desktop use, thus the explanation for the board's
inflexibility. Running a full up desktop PC environment was never an
engineering goal for this board. Quite the opposite. The engineers planned
for a very limited GUI, such as what you'd find on your TIVO or cable box.

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From: Dotan Cohen on 6 Apr 2010 07:00
> Since the CPU is a SoC, I wouldn't be surprised if there were no DIMM slot.
>

Thanks, I did not read the whole thread and missed that part.


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