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Lobster
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PostPosted: Mon 19 Dec 2005, 02:07    Post subject:  check_space  
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/sbin/check_space is a background program (daemon) that continually monitors the ramdisk and will pop up a warning message if space is running low. This has always been in Puppy. I have modified /root/.xinitrc so that check_space will only be launched if free space in "/" is less than 20M. Thus, check_space will only run in very tight situations, such as running in a 128M-RAM PC with no swap partition. It will not run in a hard-drive-installed Puppy, as "/" is the entire hard drive partition which is bound to have more than 20M free (besides which, the full h.d. install doesn't use a ramdisk).


If you run from CD as I do, this is good news. I am used to increasing the size of the utilities / Resize as Puppy has increasingly used more developed and larger .pup programs. If you are unaware of this, programs can suddenly refuse to run which is rather disconcerting.
Anyway I believe that is what the above from here:
http://www.pupweb.org/puppy/news.htm
refers to.

Main features of Puppy Tardis (1.0.7) can be found here:
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/DownloadLatest
(needs updating if anyone is up to it?)
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PostPosted: Mon 19 Dec 2005, 02:24    Post subject:  
Lobster,
No, it won't have any likely effect whatsoever on how you use Puppy. check_space is simply a warning monitor, sounds an alarm if space in ramdisk gets low.
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PostPosted: Mon 19 Dec 2005, 02:50    Post subject:  
Embarassed
read this several times to understand what it does and still have not a clue . . .
I was hoping it was checking and warning about system space - oh well . . .
Thanks Barry I am sure it will be very welcome to those running on smaller amounts of RAM Smile
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