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. >> >> -- >> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "BeagleBoard" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
