Victor, I was thinking about using >8gig space for swap so I could try suspend2 to put my xBox into hybernate sleep. Do you know if the >8gig space has a dev name, i.e. hdaxx?
In order to get the machine to recover from hybernate I need to pass a device as a boot option to the kernel that tells it where the swap file is. I don't believe I can use a fatx swap for that. If I can get it to hybernate than the wife acceptance factor goes way up since it would, hopefully, boot in a lot less time than it takes now. Please let me know Ben --- Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried that... I originally put the swap on my file > server and didn't > use the harddrive once it booted into linux. The > NFS swap was > horrifically slow. I do not recommend it, however > if your harddrive has > a 10gig instead of an 8gig, you could use the extra > 2 gigs for swap > (which the xbox doesn't use). If that still isn't > an option, you could > use a fatx file for swap like Ben mentioned (which I > have never done). > Yet still you could upgrade to 128 megs of ram and > try without swap > entirely. but having 64mb of ram and NFS swap is a > slow solution. > > Vic > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 07:18:54AM -0800, Ben Dash > wrote: > > > > > >>I'm not sure what you'd gain by not using the hard > >>drive for swap, my swap file is just a 256MB file > on > >>hda50. The swap file doesn't effect the native > xBox > >>functions. > >> > >> > > > >If I could use NFS for both root and swap (perhaps > with the help of > >additional installed RAM) then I could shut down > the drive, gaining a > >50-75% reduction in ambient noise. The noise from > the XBox isn't a > >problem when playing games since they tend to be > loud anyway, but it's > >a real distraction when watching a relatively quiet > recording. > > > >I figure having a slow swap would make navigating > the menus painful and > >would delay the start of the playback, but once I'm > actually watching > >TV I wouldn't expect to have a lot of paging going > on. > > > >I was hoping someone on here would have already > tried it and could tell > >me that it definitely works or definitely doesn't > work so I don't spend > >a lot of (potentially wasted) time reinventing the > wheel. > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >_______________________________________________ > >mythtv-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
