Why Limited Memory ?

[maxben]

This box should have 1GB of ram so why is only a third of that being made available to the system ?

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         313420      163268       10528        2088      139624      122920

[birdman]

This box should have 1GB of ram so why is only a third of that being made available to the system ?

              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         313420      163268       10528        2088      139624      122920

What are you using to display that information?

[twol]

What are you using to display that information?

I am guessing Information/Memory .. because thats what I see

[maxben]

root@sf4008:~# free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         313420      185552       11620        2088      116248       99396
Swap:             0           0           0

as compared to the HD51

root@mutant51:~# free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:        1028112      766504      166624         364       94984      228000
Swap:        502780           0      502780

This has been raised on the Octagon forum and they say 1GB is fitted but seem to be oblivious to fact it's not made available to the system.

I love this box but I'm beginning to loose a little faith in their driver devs tbh.

Another driver update today where they only address cosmetics.

I use 2 Sundtek USB tuners, one S2 and one C but they are disabled on the SF4008 because ABM and CrossEPG can't use them yet on the HD51 there's no problem, whether this is because they use different USB chipsets or poor drivers I have no idea.

[twol]

Same chipset .... the difference (and I hate to say this) is that Mut@nt have been pretty low key, but delivered changes (like Kodi), whereas Octagon are constantly interacting with users and promising a lot, but so far it's been slow coming

[maxben]

I tend to agree with you, it's looking like Esmos is Octagon so to speak, I just hope they concentrate on getting the basics working as they should before rushing out Kodi.

I'd like Octagon hardware with HD51 drivers

[twol]

I would like the ET8500 receiver box and LCD (plus slide in HDD), with the Octagon tuners and HD51 drivers plus EMMC usage (for multiboot)!!!!

[Huevos]

You'll have to keep dreaming

[twol]

You'll have to keep dreaming

You are absoutely correct, never going to happen, but ....