Slow Swap during booting

[MrGreen]

During booting of Pi it gets to SWAP and stops for around a couple of minutes.

Have set up a swapfile in fstab

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '/swapfile none swap defaults 0 0')

Shows up in free -m

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Swap: 248 0 248')

Is there anything I can do to improve booting ?

[xenoxaos]

Is this swapfile on your SD card? If it is, I would remove it from fstab and only use it when ABSOLUTELY necessary. Typically I use my swapfile only when I need to do some heavier compiling. If I need it regularly, I just add a `swapon /swapfile` to my rc.local so everything comes up before it anyway.

[MrGreen]

I will of course remove it from fstab.

Was getting lagging while updating [pacman pauses] thought swap would help.

I have edited config files in boot which helps a little, noticed that swap pauses boot for a couple of minutes....

So want to plug in usb drive with ArchBang on it and fire it up

Thanks for your help, keep up the good work

MrG

[pepedog]

Unless you are running something like xbmc, rename the file /boot/arm224start.elf to /boot/start.elf to get more ram

[MrGreen]

How what when why

free -m showed 121 used 31... 90 now after changes....

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[mrgreen@alarmpi ~]$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 216 30 186 0 5 14
-/+ buffers/cache: 10 205
Swap: 0 0 0
')

Disabled swap [as you can see], that is amazing. Did read you can tweak video memory as well but I am happy running like this...

Got to check my fstab settings for sd card.....

Thanks very much

[pepedog]

There are 3 arm files, each splits memory for cpu/gpu differently.
So the arm192 will give 192Mb for cpu, rest for gpu
If you use X and midori, it works so much more faster with 224.
The xbmc distro out there works only with the 128 version
It's all wrote down somewhere on their forum

[MrGreen]

Found this link

http://sirlagz.net/?p=445

A script to adjust ram size, not tried it yet

I really want max memory [which I think I have got now!] and very little gpu memory.

My Tiny server does not run X

Been running via ssh so have not hooked up Pi to monitor or keyboard, still want to get slow booting sorted.

Also cleaning out packages I do not need

This is good fun!

[pepedog]

There is nothing to strip out, or worth the hassle.
Stock rootfs should be settled from power to prompt in about 24 seconds, if not I would suspect your card

[MrGreen]

I bought an sd card that was on the list of compatible cards.

Found a 4gb card I am going to try out

8gb Kingston SDHC SD4

4gb Kingston SDHC SD2

OT but is there a reason for not having a / line in fstab?