I really doubt you can run Android on 32MB or RAM.

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Dmitry Grinberg <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I have very little RAM, but I have swap enabled (I know it will be slow).
> Somehow android managed to avoid using swap and just dies. Where can I
> change this behaviour?  [it boots fine with 64MB of ram, hangs with this
> problem on 32 or less]
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> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Brad Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Aug 29, 12:56 am, Dimka Kuznec <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > does anyone have any pointers for me to help debug this issue?
>>
>> How much RAM do you have?
>>
>> There are processes that Android will restart (or retry) if they can't
>> run due to lack of resources (memory).  A quick glance at init.rc
>> implies that "bootanim" may not have the resources to run (after
>> "media") and so "media" is being killed (but "media" has to run so it
>> is being restarted  (this restart is so if any of the critical
>> software dies, the phone doesn't need a hard reboot...)
>>
>> You can comment "bootanim" out of the init.rc and see if you die in
>> "dbus" or later...
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