contents of usb permenently in ram
Posted: Tue 22 Apr 2014, 18:27
i'm posting this hoping someone can shed some light on what happened ..
i'm running puppy live on a macbook pro ... no harddrive and no savefile ..just live. current uptime 32days . i can't reboot the thing as it has a faulty graphics chip that comes away from the motherboard!! if it goes off i have to dismantle it and put it in the oven and bake for 8 mins (the previous uptime was similar but when drunk one night i rebooted and needed to bake the thing again!)... it's had so many bakes now 10+ ...that if it goes down again that may be it.
so that's why i'm running completely live.
it's quite amazing ... puppy splits the 4gb ram , half for ram usage and the other half acts like a savefile that needs to be managed.
i have an 8gb sd card for storage but either the sdcard is corrupt or the motherboard is damaged from so much baking, so i can't trust the card. but i need to use it as a storage device as i have limited ram .. and this is where it gets odd.
i had a googleearth.sfs loaded from the sdcard and it worked fine even though it was on the untrusty card. the sd card then got knocked and the whole filesystem became read only & un-mountable. there was music ...pets ...pictures etc on the card aswell.
i couldn't change the sdcard back to read/write so i took the un-mountable card out and formatted in another computer.
when i put the blank/formatted card back in the mac, ALL files that where previously on the card where there and available ... music tracks played, films played !! it must have copied the entire contents to ram.
it didn't recognise the card as empty until i unmounted the (not there) googleearth.sfs off the card.
i can understand that the googleearth.sfs if unloaded would still be in ram, but does anyone have any idea why all the contents of the sdcard (music ,films etc) would be retained in ram?
i'm running puppy live on a macbook pro ... no harddrive and no savefile ..just live. current uptime 32days . i can't reboot the thing as it has a faulty graphics chip that comes away from the motherboard!! if it goes off i have to dismantle it and put it in the oven and bake for 8 mins (the previous uptime was similar but when drunk one night i rebooted and needed to bake the thing again!)... it's had so many bakes now 10+ ...that if it goes down again that may be it.
so that's why i'm running completely live.
it's quite amazing ... puppy splits the 4gb ram , half for ram usage and the other half acts like a savefile that needs to be managed.
i have an 8gb sd card for storage but either the sdcard is corrupt or the motherboard is damaged from so much baking, so i can't trust the card. but i need to use it as a storage device as i have limited ram .. and this is where it gets odd.
i had a googleearth.sfs loaded from the sdcard and it worked fine even though it was on the untrusty card. the sd card then got knocked and the whole filesystem became read only & un-mountable. there was music ...pets ...pictures etc on the card aswell.
i couldn't change the sdcard back to read/write so i took the un-mountable card out and formatted in another computer.
when i put the blank/formatted card back in the mac, ALL files that where previously on the card where there and available ... music tracks played, films played !! it must have copied the entire contents to ram.
it didn't recognise the card as empty until i unmounted the (not there) googleearth.sfs off the card.
i can understand that the googleearth.sfs if unloaded would still be in ram, but does anyone have any idea why all the contents of the sdcard (music ,films etc) would be retained in ram?