Puppy OS goes slowly to low memory (Solved)

[petty]

Hi,

I use a microclient with 512 Mb of memory and a riser 2Gb-card.
Sttaring up, the system is loaded into memory.
I started with 20 Mb free en now I have 3.7 Mb free and the warning "low memory".
I did not install new sw and do not see logfiles.

The temp-file is 80 MB. i
Is it possible to reduce the temp-file to 40 MB.

I hope You can help me.

Grtz.

Petty

[MU]

Hi,

I use a microclient with 512 Mb of memory and a riser 2Gb-card.
Sttaring up, the system is loaded into memory.
I started with 20 Mb free en now I have 3.7 Mb free and the warning "low memory".
I did not install new sw and do not see logfiles.

The temp-file is 80 MB. i
Is it possible to reduce the temp-file to 40 MB.

Petty

what tempfile?
You can set a smaller size for /tmp

Edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

around line 65
mount -t tmpfs -o size=${QTRFREERAM}k shmfs /dev/shm

you could replace that with
mount -t tmpfs -o size=49m shmfs /dev/shm

This is a ram-drive, to what /tmp is mounted.

Or even better, do not use a ram-drive.
Comment the lines like that:

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#v2.20 some apps need shm (shared memory) (ex: xfdiff)...
#MU deactivated shm
#FREERAM=`free | grep 'Mem:' | tr -s ' ' | cut -f 5 -d ' '`
#QTRFREERAM=`expr $FREERAM \/ 4`
#mount -t tmpfs -o size=${QTRFREERAM}k shmfs /dev/shm

Then /tmp is used directly in pup_save.2fs
You need to reboot for the change.
Mark

[Bruce B]

Hi,

I use a microclient with 512 Mb of memory and a riser 2Gb-card.
Sttaring up, the system is loaded into memory.
I started with 20 Mb free en now I have 3.7 Mb free and the warning "low memory".
I did not install new sw and do not see logfiles.

The temp-file is 80 MB. i
Is it possible to reduce the temp-file to 40 MB.

I hope You can help me.

Grtz.

Petty

You're post by virtue of this statement: . . . with 512 Mb of memory, that you are referring to physical RAM?

Are you?

If so, do you think the 20MB Free which drops to 3.7 is also referring to available physical RAM?

[petty]

Hi all.

Thanks for the answers.
I discoverd that the pup_save.2fs was corrupted. I deleted this file and made a new one. Now it is working nice.
I tried to use the backup-file, but that was not possible. How can I do that, because You cannot unmount it.

My system sets all in memory and the save-file on the Compact Flashcard.

How can I use the Flashcard as a total and not a load to the memory?
(I think that it is better.).

Grtz.

Petty

[Bruce B]

To use the backup file you boot from another OS or same OS with pfix=ram option.

This can be a permanent GRUB option

One entry for normal booting

Another entry that appends the kernel line with pfix=ram or pfix=ram,nox - witch ever suits your purpose.

When using the ram options your pup_saves are not in use and can be managed.

[Béèm]

And to answer the second part.
If you don't want to use a pup_save file you could see for a full install.

[petty]

Hi all,

Thanks for the answers.
It helps me to solve the things I asked for.

Grtz.

Petty