[SlimDevices: 3rd-party-hardware] Re: Standby mode on DS106 with swap file on USB stick

[glem01]

Yes, I think so. The amount of used memory, as returned by the command
'free', rarely goes above 70 MB on my DS-106x, so you should be able to
get below 64 MB. I assume you're only interested in the part concerning
SlimServer, right? In this case:

a) don't use and forget all about the following services: DNS/DHCP
(dnsmasq), mail (cyrus/postfix), and of course all the system
monitoring stuff (net-snmp/rrdtool) and Twonky - they eat up some
ressources you'd prefer to save
b) deactivate all Syno-services you don't need (mediaserver, ftp,
photostation or whatever). If you're used to the linux command line,
deactivate also some Syno-background processes (e.g. pgsql, synoindexd,
synomktumbd and others) as described in the Howto.
c) if you want to use the Syno-Webserver (apache) with MySQL,
deactivate the MySQL-server from SlimServer and use the one from the DS
as described in
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?ExistingMySQLInstance
d) install and activate a swapfile on a USB2-Stick and deactivate the
default swap partition. You can do it with the uswbswap-patch from
mr_hide (look here around) or manually (some hints, but no complete
description, are in the mentioned Howto)
e) and, very important, restart SlimServer with no plugins and extras
(remove them also from the Plugins-directory), and re-add and activate
only those really needed and not disturbing the standby functionality.
Some Plugins which work fine are listed somewhere else in this thread I
think, or in my Howto.
f) verify that the new configuration is maintained after a complete
system restart. And if you still have some free memory to use, you
could try to add again more SS-Plugins or other services.

Good luck! Manuel


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