Memory refers to the SDRAM (a kind of RAM) found on the Raspberry Pi.
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What is the optimum split of main versus GPU memory?
I read that it's possible to allocate either 128MB, 64MB or 32MB to the Raspberry Pi's video memory.
Given that my primary use case for this machine is educational: I will be running lightweight ...
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How does memory-mapped I/O addressing work?
How does memory-mapped I/O addressing work?
I'm trying to understand a sample supplied I2S: Anyone got it running?.
Configuring Clocks:
#define BCM2708_PERI_BASE 0x20000000
#define ...
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How to set up swap space?
Raspberry Pi has only 256 MB of RAM, so I would like to use swap space (either on SD card or attached USB storage). How do I set it up?
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Is it a good idea to mount /var in memory?
Re this answer: http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/867/339
It is suggested that /var be mounted in memory, so to avoid causing your root partition to fill accidentally.
I've got a couple of ...
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How can I increase the size of the ram disk
In Debian Wheezy If I make a ram disk with
mke2fs -m 0 /dev/ram0
mount /dev/ram0 /mnt/ramdisk
I get a ram disk 3.9M in size. I could really do with 16M, is there a way of making the ram disk ...
