Currently Android isn't designed to be used with swap, ans isn't designed to run in 32 MB RAM.
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Dmitry Grinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > the entore ubuntu desktop starts with 16mb + swap, why wouldn't android? > ---- > Best Regards > > > > On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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: >> >>> >>> >>> 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] >>> >>> >>> >>> ---- >>> Best Regards, >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Brad Davis <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> 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... >>>> >>>> -- >>>> unsubscribe: >>>> [email protected]<android-porting%[email protected]> >>>> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> unsubscribe: >>> [email protected]<android-porting%[email protected]> >>> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dianne Hackborn >> Android framework engineer >> [email protected] >> >> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to >> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such >> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and >> answer them. >> >> > -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer [email protected] Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and answer them. -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
