On Dec 13, 2011, at 3:14 AM, John O'Donnell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/12/2011 07:11 PM, Ottavio wrote: >> On 11 December 2011 09:30, John O'Donnell<[email protected]> wrote: >>> If I have 8gigs of RAM, why cant I just create a X gig amount of ram disk >>> and make that swap space (virtual RAM) within the qemu virtual machine... >> >> Is there any real life ARM device that supports 8G RAM? > > I dont know. All I know is I need more than 512M. I am experimenting with > QT. Compiling it on a current Sheeva/Guru plug takes 3 days with about 2gb of > swap. If I can get more memory to toy with then it will make life so much > easier. After I get my results, I will spend the 3 days to get a compile on > hardware. > > John > > -- > === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== > +================================+==================================+ > | John O'Donnell | | > | (Sr. Systems Engineer, | http://juanisan.homeip.net | > | Net Admin, Programmer, etc.) | E-Mail: [email protected] | > +================================+==================================+ > No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are > indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson > _______________________________________________ > ARMedslack mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack If you really need to speed up builds and you have a spare SATA port or 2, you could use one of these: http://www.acard.com.tw/english/fb01-product.jsp?idno_no=270&prod_no=ANS-9010&type1_title=%20Solid%20State%20Drive&type1_idno=13 I used one for a bit as swap/tmp/build space and it helped. -Greg Lim _______________________________________________ ARMedslack mailing list [email protected] http://lists.armedslack.org/mailman/listinfo/armedslack
