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Note that some systems actively try to use otherwise unused memory to speed up running processes. For example, if a process starts reading from a large file, the system might read the next few blocks (or megabytes) of that file into a system buffer so the data will be in memory without having to wait for the disk to rotate if that process reads the next block.
If other processes start up need the memory that was used for read-ahead buffers they can be reallocated to the next process without affecting how fast the new process can be loaded.
Different versions of BSD, Linux, and UNIX systems use different algorithms to try to make efficient use of memory. And, different releases of each of those systems may change the algorithms as the vendors think they have learned something from past experiences.
In other words, there can be lots of "free" memory may be used to hold data that may soon be useful to someone even though it can be re-allocated immediately if someone asks for it to be put to a specific use.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
pilot-getram
pilot-getram(1) PILOT-LINK pilot-getram(1)
NAME
pilot-getram - Retrieves the RAM image from your Palm device for use in debugging.
SECTION
pilot-link: Tools
SYNOPSIS
pilot-getram [-p|--port <port>] [--version] [-q|--quiet] [-?|--help] [--usage] [-t|--token token] [-s|--sysinfo] [--ram] [--rom] [file-
name]
DESCRIPTION
pilot-getram is used to fetch the current RAM image from your Palm handheld for use in debugging.
pilot-getromtoken, pilot-getrom and pilot-getram are inter-related. All relevant code is implemented in pilot-getrom, and you can do
pilot-getromtoken --ram filename to get the RAM dump if you like.
Note, because pilot-getrom uses the low-level RPC protocol to fetch the ROM image, and the new OS5 devices do not use this protocol, you
currently cannot fetch an OS5 ROM image using this utility. This will be updated in a future release to handle fetching OS5 ROM images,
using the debugger protocol.
OPTIONS
pilot-getram options
-t,
--token token
A ROM token to read (i.e. snum)
-s, --sysinfo
Print SysInfo
--ram
Read RAM
--rom
Read ROM
<filename>
Write the RAM image to the file named by <filename>. If this is omitted, the filename will be written out as the RAM version name as fol-
lows: ' pilot-$VERSION.ram ', where an OS 3.5 image would be written as the filename of 'pilot-3.5.0.ram'.
Conduit Options
-p, --port
<port>
Use device file <port> to communicate with the Palm handheld. If this is not specified, pilot-getram will look for the $PILOTPORT environ-
ment variable. If neither are found or supplied, pilot-getram will print the usage information.
-q,
--quiet
Suppress 'Hit HotSync button' message
-v, --version
Display version of pilot-getram and exit without connecting.
Help Options
-h, --help
Display the help synopsis for pilot-getram and exit without connecting.
--usage
Display a brief usage message and exit without connecting.
USAGE
Connect to a target Palm handheld and fetch the RAM from the device.
AUTHOR
pilot-getram was originally written by Kenneth Albanowski.
This manual page was converted to XML by Neil Williams <linux@codehelp.co.uk>
REPORTING BUGS
We have an online bug tracker. Using this is the only way to ensure that your bugs are recorded and that we can track them until they are
resolved or closed. Reporting bugs via email, while easy, is not very useful in terms of accountability. Please point your browser to
http://bugs.pilot-link.org: http://bugs.pilot-link.org and report your bugs and issues there.
COPYRIGHT
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
SEE ALSO
pilot-getrom (1), pilot-link(7).
0.12.5 Copyright 1996-2007 FSF pilot-getram(1)