techjonte7272
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Luakit running very slow on RPI 4 (4GB)

Wed Jul 08, 2020 3:20 pm

I have a problem with LuaKit it,s not opening anyting it can,t go to any website and nothing happens in the window when i,m opening it, it,s just black.

Here is a screen recording that will show you the problem and some things i tried to do to fix the problem (like reinstalling it)

https://streamable.com/404rkn

bjtheone
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Location: The Frozen North (AKA Canada)

Re: Luakit running very slow on RPI 4 (4GB)

Wed Jul 08, 2020 6:13 pm

A couple of questions:

* Where did you get it from, since I only see mention of x86, not ARM on the Luakit website
* What OS are you running
* Have you considered Chromium, since that is what RPT is supporting and what they spend extra effort optimizing

ConfuSomu
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Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2018 8:47 am
Location: Canada

Re: Luakit running very slow on RPI 4 (4GB)

Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:20 pm

The way I managed to use luakit on the Raspberry Pi was by compiling it from the source on Github. Compiling was done by installing all (few) dependencies and running make install. See § "Installing from source" on their website.

Please note that I compiled it on Arch Linux ARM.
If you are low on RAM, make sure to use zram! ;)
I found & use this zram setup script: https://github.com/novaspirit/rpi_zram
A post about zram: t=207304
Make sure to disable dphys-swapfile and mount the tmp folders in RAM. Also learn about SysRq!

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