Topics created by Justin Sowers

@Justin-Sowers Fair enough. Sorry I wasn't able to help.
fast-gpio set 6 1 should not be creating any additional processes. It just uses hardware memory register access to set the pin value (as does the get-direction calls - only pwm causes fast-gpio to fork a separate process).

So, it is a bit of a puzzle as to why you end up with multiple processes running.

Since I really don't have any experience with Ruby or Python which you say you are using all I can suggest is that you look at what Ruby or Python are doing when they run the shell command fast-gpio set 6 1 etc. Perhaps others with more knowledge of these could advise.

@Justin-Sowers As per this post: https://community.onion.io/topic/9/how-to-install-gcc/47 it is possible to set up the Omega with swap space that effectively gives it extra usable memory space (note that usage of USB for overlay as in https://wiki.onion.io/Tutorials/Using-USB-Storage-as-Rootfs only makes more disk space available for the /overlay directory, it does not increase usable memory space).
Currently, most of the opkg packages are designed around the relatively limited basic resources of the Omega. What is needed is access to packages that can (a) make use of greater disk space (e.g.via /overlay on USB drive) and/or (b) use more memory space if it is available via swap