The Pi has 256M of RAM and works surprisingly well as a graphical desktop. I find it about par with my Lemote Yeeloong 8089 (which has a gig of RAM). The ARM (and MIPSEL) distress are both second class citizen in the Debian world, so you might not find packages for everything you want. The SDHC card, used for persistent storage, should support swap if needed. No idea how well the GPIO memory board idea might work.. On Aug 1, 2012 11:39 AM, "Steven S. Critchfield" <[email protected]> wrote:
> While I have a PI available for me to play with, I haven't gone too far > down playing with it yet. Belongs to work, and I don't want to take it home > right yet. > > One of the thoughts I had about the memory issue is that the PI has GPIO > pins much like an arduino does. It might not bee too difficult to take a > page from arduinos and lash up some more memory via the GPIO pins. Would > make for a really good daughter card for those devices. Granted, once you > have it physically attached, you still have to write a driver to be able to > use it. That might prove to be the harder part. > > Anyways, just an idea. > > BTW, there is nothing stopping you from running a swap partition for the > PI either on the SD card, or via a USB or other network attached drive. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > I have been looking to build a low wattage box to run only Backup > > on. Have been looking at Raspberry Pi model B, but have not been able > > to confirm that it has enough memory. I did some checking on the two > > boxes that I have BackupPC running on and it seems to require about 70 > > K of memory. > > Does anyone have a clue if this might be a doable thing? > > > > -- Jerry Perkins > > Home page http://jperkins.us <html://jperkins/us> > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] For more options, visit this > > group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > Steven Critchfield [email protected] > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
