Gentoox and virtual memory
Gentoox and virtual memory
I read somewhere last night that the xbox has got over 2 gig of vm, Is it not possible for future releases of gentoox to use the this or is the vm not compatible with linux. How would virtual memory affect the speed of linux on the box.
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Whoever wrote this didn't know what he/she was talking about, AFAIK. Virtual Memory, AKA ``swap space,'' or, in the M$ Windows world, ``page file,'' is simply using secondary memory (like the hard drive) to perform a similar duty as primary memory (Core, for example, RAM). There should be no reason that Linux can access all of the hard drive except the VM. As another aside, Linux has its own swap space at /swap (of your XBOX filesystem, not your linux filesystem).
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So having more than 256MB is something you'd never doShALLaX wrote:There is absolutely no point in having swap above 256mb.
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Nice sample nobspanglenobspangle wrote:So having more than 256MB is something you'd never doShALLaX wrote:There is absolutely no point in having swap above 256mb.
Actually on my totally native gentoo i have something like 350 :/ couldn't hava cared less when i was using fdisk xD.. (i know its more than enough tho)
btw, shallax, on my gentoo install, i tried once to get that phpSys stuff to work, i compiled xboxtemp and put it in my bin folder but it just wouldn't display the temps or the fan speed
is there something additional you use, kinda.. or?
thanks (maybe its not the right place to ask but i can't bother making a topic about it)
You sure that person wasn't talking about windows?DOGSMAN wrote:I read somewhere last night that the xbox has got over 2 gig of vm, Is it not possible for future releases of gentoox to use the this or is the vm not compatible with linux. How would virtual memory affect the speed of linux on the box.
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