Well, I mean you can in many cases use up haf the RAM for a tmpfs ramdisk.
So in the context of running a web server, you could theoretically do that
without ever touching the onboard flash media, or sdcard.

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:23 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> *Definitely looking at it from a build system point of view.  For every
>> day I have found 512MB more then plenty except for the occasional need of a
>> ramdisk where more is better, I suppose.*
>>
>
> My experiences over the last 3 or so years with the BBB lead me to believe
> that if you're smart, the amount of memory this board has does not really
> matter.
>
> That is for example. I wrote an application in C that would read from the
> CANBUS, decode the data coming over that bus at 1Mbit/s, format it, and
> then send the decoded / formated data out over a websocket. All in all,
> this was 4 separate processes, working towards that end. 3 Of those process
> were used to read individual fastpacket 2000 PGN's. One unique PGN per
> process, while the fourth process was a web/websocket server written in C(
> using libmongoose ).
>
> All these processes were pretty busy, using up a a good bit of processor
> time if I let them. But the processes hardly ever used more than ~85MB ram
> unless I was doing some sort of "system maintenance" while these processes
> were running.
>
> Anyway, my point here is that I think that for most situations, you can
> use up half the BBB's RAM ( 256MB ), and still be in very good shape. But
> you can not be doing something silly like running a full blown desktop - At
> the same time.
>
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Adi Linden <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> In the context of a build system, Of course it is. In the context of
>>> running every day doing *something* embedded . . . It really depends, but
>>> most of the time it would make very little if any difference.
>>>
>>
>> Definitely looking at it from a build system point of view.  For every
>> day I have found 512MB more then plenty except for the occasional need of a
>> ramdisk where more is better, I suppose.
>>
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