![]() ![]() Now, we can disable some of those packages. We can see on this screenshot one RouterBoard with 64MB of RAM and all installed packages. Maybe 2, 5 or 10MB doesn’t sound so much for all this effort, but in the world of embedded devices that is a lot! Bear in mind that many appliances are very conservative on the CPU power, disk space or RAM, yet highly efficient in their tasks. We can disable a few less used packages to recover a couple megabytes of RAM. However, we usually don’t need all of them. In the other hand, every RouterBoard have all basic packages installed and enabled. You can finish with only 4MB free, which could lead to the situation when device is run out of memory and crash. ![]() The most critical devices are those with only 32MB of RAM. Nonetheless, if you decide to follow this procedure and make any changed on your router, you’re solely responsible for any consequence it may arise. Do not make any experiment on the live equipment. If you are not sure what you are doing, please don’t make any changes. I do not encourage you in any way to do the same. I made all those changes described here because I consider them safe. Here’s the nifty trick to increase free RAM for better operations. In many cases, the most critical resource is RAM. And as many other appliances, they offer have very limited resources.
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