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Should Sony remove other OS feature?

HELL YEAH, PS3 IS FOR GAMING 14 40.00%
 
If it's going to be usef... 5 14.29%
 
70MB is enough to help 'em. 3 8.57%
 
Not my fault Valve is lazy. 3 8.57%
 
I paid for that feature, so no way. 10 28.57%
 
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Tuganuno on 06 March 2010
WereKitten said:
Tuganuno said:

The title says it all. Well actually, for the ones of you who aren't aware of the latest (PS3 fat) news, Sony managed to add 70MB of RAM to the general system memory. How did they do this? They reduced the other OS's memory (120MB to 50 MB).

So what do you think? Should Sony completely remove the other OS memory, add another 50MB and help developers, or just leave the OS alone?

If this is possible, then yes, I would totally support Sony. PS3 is a console, if I want Linux in my bedroom, then Ill just install it on my laptop.

 

Can I see a link to this? Because as I understand it:

1) there's no reason why the other OS should take you any memory when you're not running it. When you run Linux you basically reboot into a virtual machine. When you run the PS3 OS, the virtualized Linux isn't running. The slim doesn't even come with a virtual machine for other OSs anymore.

2) the numbers you quoted are exactly the numbers of the memory footprint of the PS3 OS at launch and today. The latest patch did not free up 70MB, btw, previous versions of the OS used 96MB so a further 46MB were freed up to the current value of 50MB. Still, the "other OS" has nothing to do with it, it's the memory reserved for the PS3's OS that has been trimmed of that exact amount.

I think you got the news wrong, basically.

 

That is very likely, I should have just posted the link lol http://gamer.blorge.com/2010/02/24/sony-creates-more-ps3-memory-out-of-thin-air/

 



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Xen on 06 March 2010

No.
Linux on PS3 is too useful!



Random Canadian on 06 March 2010

Clueless, Stupid thread, waste of time, ect ect

1)Ram gained is from optimizing GAMEOS nothing to do with OTHEROS
2) 70MB of ram is A LOT when you only have 512.

run along now
/Thread



Zkuq on 06 March 2010
Severance said:
What does 70 MB do? thats too low. (i thought its 700 MB).
btw it doesn't take space so why delete it?

It's RAM, not HDD space. 70MB's a lot on the PS3, it has only 256MB in total.

Anyway, there's always going to be a OS of some sort, even if it's not accessible in-game.



dsister44 on 06 March 2010

Just because you don't use it doesn't mean no one else doesn't...



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ssj12 on 06 March 2010

You REALLY have no freaking idea wtf your talking about. The Other OS has nothing to do with the ram gained over all the XMB usage decreases.

Thats right, Its NOT THE OTHER OS, its the footprint that the CROSS MEDIA BAR USES. Why not redo this thread asking for the remove of the XMB, oh wait, thats right, remove the XMB, NO PS3 FEATURES WOULD WORK EXCEPT GAMING.

The OtherOS uses ram allowed by Sony when its started, it has nothing to do with memory usage at all.

/thread



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WereKitten on 06 March 2010
Zkuq said:
Severance said:
What does 70 MB do? thats too low. (i thought its 700 MB).
btw it doesn't take space so why delete it?

It's RAM, not HDD space. 70MB's a lot on the PS3, it has only 256MB in total.

Anyway, there's always going to be a OS of some sort, even if it's not accessible in-game.

Actually the 120MB of orginal footprint was between main ram and video ram, thus it was out of a total of 512MB, not 256. I'm not sure of where the latest extra 46MB were freed, though.



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Severance on 06 March 2010
Zkuq said:
Severance said:
What does 70 MB do? thats too low. (i thought its 700 MB).
btw it doesn't take space so why delete it?

It's RAM, not HDD space. 70MB's a lot on the PS3, it has only 256MB in total.

Anyway, there's always going to be a OS of some sort, even if it's not accessible in-game.

i know its RAM but it still doesn't do much.



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Random Canadian on 06 March 2010
Zkuq said:
Severance said:
What does 70 MB do? thats too low. (i thought its 700 MB).
btw it doesn't take space so why delete it?

It's RAM, not HDD space. 70MB's a lot on the PS3, it has only 256MB in total.

Anyway, there's always going to be a OS of some sort, even if it's not accessible in-game.

FUD

PS3 has 512



Tuganuno on 06 March 2010
ssj12 said:

You REALLY have no freaking idea wtf your talking about. The Other OS has nothing to do with the ram gained over all the XMB usage decreases.

Thats right, Its NOT THE OTHER OS, its the footprint that the CROSS MEDIA BAR USES. Why not redo this thread asking for the remove of the XMB, oh wait, thats right, remove the XMB, NO PS3 FEATURES WOULD WORK EXCEPT GAMING.

The OtherOS uses ram allowed by Sony when its started, it has nothing to do with memory usage at all.

/thread

OH LOL Well thanks for the explanation, and yes I will redo this thread. All in favour of losing everything but the games just so developers can work with +50MB? AYE!

My fault for misinterpreting the news, sorry all, please lock it.