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rn314 memory upgrade?
Hello I have a RN314 with the standard 2gb ram I was wondering if anybody has upgraded the ram to 4gb? Did it work? I am having some sluggish syncing going on and figured the ram would help. I upgr...
If you download your logs, and extract the zip contents what does the log showing memory usage look like? If like in the output in the article linked to above the memory is being used for caching then a memory upgrade likely won't help much. However if your system is using lots of swap then a memory upgrade (though unsupported) may make a big difference.
What does your initrd.log look like?
I agree that you should definitely run the memory test (at least for a few passes) before trusting memory upgrades. Note that passing the memory test does not guarantee that the memory is good and compatible, it just indicates that it is likely to be. However failing the memory test would indicate that the memory is incompatible or bad.
On the 314 the memory test progress should display on the display on the front. If not, hook up a display via HDMI and you should see more detailed progress.
Note the 314 and 312 use the same CPU so I expect they probably use the same memory. Upgrading the memory on the 314 would involve a similar level of difficulty to the 312. The 316 is harder, but still doable.
What does your initrd.log look like?
I agree that you should definitely run the memory test (at least for a few passes) before trusting memory upgrades. Note that passing the memory test does not guarantee that the memory is good and compatible, it just indicates that it is likely to be. However failing the memory test would indicate that the memory is incompatible or bad.
On the 314 the memory test progress should display on the display on the front. If not, hook up a display via HDMI and you should see more detailed progress.
Note the 314 and 312 use the same CPU so I expect they probably use the same memory. Upgrading the memory on the 314 would involve a similar level of difficulty to the 312. The 316 is harder, but still doable.
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