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itismike

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Posted: April 02 2005,16:12

Quote (tronik @ April 02 2005,10:53)

Correct.

Thanks for the reply Tronic, but maybe you could add some content to it? ;-)

mikshaw

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Posted: April 02 2005,18:04

If you have an adequate amount of ram, running toram loads the whole system into ram. This speeds things up nicely...as long as you have enough ram to store everything + run your applications.

just add "toram" to the append string. You don't always need the "dsl" part...that's just a way to make sure the options entered are separated by a space on both ends.

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itismike

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Posted: April 02 2005,18:15

Thanks mikshaw,
so the new command is:

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START qemu\qemu.exe -L qemu/ -enable-audio -localtime -kernel linux24 -initrd minirt24.gz -hda KNOPPIX/knoppix -hdb qemu/harddisk -append "qemu sb=0x220,5,1,1 frugal quiet toram"

I'll modify my "dsl-windows.bat" file to read that.

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Posted: April 02 2005,18:43

You also can control the amount of RAM inside your virtual PC. Keep in mind that you should always try and keep it less than the amount on RAM in your Real PC or you will start swapping like crazy to the hard drive.

qemu.exe -m 256

for 256MB of RAM

itismike

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Posted: April 03 2005,01:26

So I tried adding toram and -m 512, but I still can't get it to load into ram. I've got enough memory. The startup messages are:

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Accessing DSL image at /dev/hda...
du: /cdrom/KNOPPIX: No such file or directory
Copying DSL image to ramdisk...Please be patient.
/bin/cp: cannot stat '/cdrom/KNOPPIX': No such file or directory
Copying DSL image failed. ramdisk possibly has not enough space left.
Total memory found: 515188 kB
Creating /ramdisk (dynamic size=405780k) on shared memory...Done.
Creating directories and symlinks on ramdisk...Done.
Starting init process.
INIT: version 2.78-knoppix booting
Running Linux Kernel 2.4.26.
Processor 0 is Pentium Pro 2154MHz, 128 KB Cache
Autoconfiguring devices... / - \ | / - \ | / - .....

Has anyone got DSL embedded to run with toram? Is there a reason that it wasn't configured with that option in the first place? Does qemu already optimize memory usage? I notice in my Windows task manager that qemu uses 45MB to 92MB while starting, but I expected it to allocate all 512MB as in the startup script. Am I making a bunch of noise for no reason? It just seems like it could run faster if DSL was loaded into RAM.

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