RPi with 512mb Memory?

Now it's official. A 512MB Pi, and we certainly as more often than not heard it here first.

Thank you all deep miners of the Pi caverns to keep us all on the forefront of knowledge.

Ray

P.S. Dear Distro maintainers please do not suddenly make all your Pi OS distros twice as big and only suitable for the larger memory machines.

Ray Hughes wrote:

 

Now it's official. A 512MB Pi, and we certainly as more often than not heard it here first.

 

Thank you all deep miners of the Pi caverns to keep us all on the forefront of knowledge.

 

Ray

 

P.S. Dear Distro maintainers please do not suddenly make all your Pi OS distros twice as big and only suitable for the larger memory machines.

 

Pretty sure that the people here had no more idea that a 512 was imminently on the way than anywhere else. Lots of people predicting it eventually (well, obvious it was going to happen at some point), but not sure anyone predicted it so soon. Anyone can make Pi in the the sky predictions, its getting the timing right that's the important bit, and I don't reckon anyone saw this one coming so soon.

Making a distro twice as 'big' doesn't mean you need twice the memory - the kernel stays the same size (within reason) on any platform. Linux uses swap, so lower memory system will still work, but slower.

Bill.

Billy Thornton wrote:

 

Pretty sure that the people here had no more idea that a 512 was imminently on the way than anywhere else. Lots of people predicting it eventually (well, obvious it was going to happen at some point), but not sure anyone predicted it so soon. Anyone can make Pi in the the sky predictions, its getting the timing right that's the important bit, and I don't reckon anyone saw this one coming so soon.

 

Bill.

Fegus started this thread on 02-Sep-2012, based on evidence he had found on the Australian site. I don't think this counts as a pie in the sky prediction?

So your claiming an accidental website entry as evidence? Did he predict when? Like I said, any one could have predicted there was going to be a 512 version  -I saw posts on the other forum well before September about that. No-one predicted when. Just do a seach on 512MB - mentioned all over the place. Everyone assumed it was coming, no-one knew when. I read somewhere over there that these things have been in production since the move to Wales manufacturing so obviously planned for some time. They still managed to keep it mostly secret, to keep Osbourne happy! That pretty cool!

My prediction now; there will never be a 1GB version. You heard it here first! (Citation : no one makes 1GB ddr2 PoP ram, and its an old technology, so no-one ever will).

Bill

So it looks like there are already instructions on how to configure the Pi to make use of the extra memory over on the RasPi forum.

Now I just need the Pi to arrive :-)

One of my old ones will be consigned as a permanent Air print server - any thoughts on where the 512 Meg version will most show improvement over the 256 Meg version ?

So it looks like there are already instructions on how to configure the Pi to make use of the extra memory over on the RasPi forum.

Now I just need the Pi to arrive :-)

One of my old ones will be consigned as a permanent Air print server - any thoughts on where the 512 Meg version will most show improvement over the 256 Meg version ?

Steve, I would guess the most improvement would be in multitasking. Say a multi-user webserver. In 'normal use', though, I'd expect X windows to improve markedly with multiple windows.

Overall video performance is likely to improve also as at the moment the memory allocation has to be played with to get the balance right.