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Posted 13 July - Checking availability of destination Checking E2 partitions Formatting E2 partitions Formatting Extended partitions Please wait! This operation can take a very long time.

FTP sending data Firmware E FTP Transfer Ok! Creat Swap Mounting MMP, please wait! Mounting firmware, please wait! Copying E Please wait, this operation takes time!

Setting correct Mount Point Cleaning up Cramfs Unmounting MMP and Root Swap off. OK, here is the report, regarding the easyplipanel you kindly sent to me to test, 2boom Sign In Create Account. This work will commence at GMT.

They anticipate that this work will take no more than 60 minutes to complete. First off, telnet in to the box using your favourite telnet programme. Then, type the following command after count, enter the size of file you want. Sponsored by World-of-Satellite.

Thanks Pooface Cheers Sloth. Good post pooface, made it a sticky. In all instances, information discussed here on my posts are either hypothetical in nature, out of general curiosity, common knowledge, public knowledge, or role-play. Any use of the collective descriptions and shared knowledge from any of my posts are at the sole discretion of the reader.

I am not responsible for what you do with it! Basically, it gives your system more memory to cache things to, and should help to stop any problems you may get Here's the wikipedia information on in: Code:.

Originally Posted by pooface. Hmmmmm, let's ask the same question in other words: why should the VU need more memory? I think it has plenty and therefore doesn't need a slow swapfile. Posted 3 June - Is there an ability to activate swap space within the latest unstable images for the DMHD. If not is it possible to download an addon or activate it?

No, it's manual labour. Re: Swap Space 3 techie Member 19 posts 0. Re: Swap Space 4 updatelee Senior Member posts 0. Posted 3 June - and if you add the swap in fstab see google it will also be activated every time you reboot.

Re: Swap Space 6 techie Member 19 posts 0. Posted 3 June - thanks guys.. I hope the newbies like me, understand how it works, and how to make it happens! TKZ for all! No, it is not a good idea to put the swap file on hard drives, because the hard drive will never go to sleep, and if enigma try to acces it while it is in sleep mode, it can slow your box down and may also lock it up.

When I check the swapfile menu it says swap active by 64MB but I haven't noticed any speed difference. Should I notice any difference? If so, where? Type the word 'free' on the terminal login to see how much swap is used. As long as you do not use application wich take up huge amount of memory, a big swapfile is not needed.

Swap is like an extension on your normal memory. If the system does not need it, it does not use it at all. You can make it huge, but it will not realy speed things up. Another example in comparison my ubuntu install with a swapfile of 2.