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Swap partition?
Posted: Sat May 04, 2019 12:10 am
by daveyw
Hi,
Can anyone tell me what's involved in setting up a SWAP partition? I have both OS4.1 and Linux on the same drive.
Alternatively, I might upgrade the RAM, but I seem to recall there were some caveats around having more than 4 GB physical RAM, some kind of incompatibiliy with different cards ??? I am using MEM=3500M in my uboot bootargs.
BTW, I notice is now getting a bit hard to find DDR3 SD-RAM.
Thanks!
Re: Swap partition?
Posted: Sun May 05, 2019 10:38 am
by xeno74
daveyw wrote:Hi,
Can anyone tell me what's involved in setting up a SWAP partition? I have both OS4.1 and Linux on the same drive.
Alternatively, I might upgrade the RAM, but I seem to recall there were some caveats around having more than 4 GB physical RAM, some kind of incompatibiliy with different cards ??? I am using MEM=3500M in my uboot bootargs.
BTW, I notice is now getting a bit hard to find DDR3 SD-RAM.
Thanks!
My X5000 has 8GB RAM. It works without any problems. I don't need the boot argument
mem=3500M. Which cards are installed in your X5000?
-- Christian
Re: Swap partition?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 7:24 am
by daveyw
Radeon HD 7850 GFX card PCIe, PCI network card (Realtek 8169), PCIe sound card CMI8738/CMI8768), PCI SATA controller Sil3112.
Re: Swap partition?
Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 8:05 am
by xeno74
daveyw wrote:Radeon HD 7850 GFX card PCIe, PCI network card (Realtek 8169), PCIe sound card CMI8738/CMI8768), PCI SATA controller Sil3112.
Spectre660 wrote: You can also remove the mem=3500M if you are not using an rtl 8169 pci network card.
It seems you need the boot argument
mem=3500M because of the Realtek 8169 PCI network card.
Re: Swap partition?
Posted: Thu May 23, 2019 9:12 pm
by daveyw
xeno74 wrote:
Spectre660 wrote: You can also remove the mem=3500M if you are not using an rtl 8169 pci network card.
It seems you need the boot argument
mem=3500M because of the Realtek 8169 PCI network card.
OK, I've now switched to a PCIe RTL8168 card; would I be able to expand the RAM and drop
MEM=3500M?
Re: Swap partition?
Posted: Fri May 24, 2019 7:09 am
by xeno74
daveyw wrote:
OK, I've now switched to a PCIe RTL8168 card; would I be able to expand the RAM and drop MEM=3500M?
Yes, you can drop it.
Re: Swap partition?
Posted: Wed May 29, 2019 3:11 am
by daveyw
Awesome, I'm now upgraded to 8GB. I managed to pick up a 4GB stick identical to the Crucial stick AmigaKit supplied with the board for 46NZD.
Seems to run a little snappier, and Pale Moon does seem to freeze quite so often.
Still might try to add a swap partition, but I'm nervious with the drive sharing partitions for AmigaOS.