[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Adding swapon/off to Jakub's Load-Plugin applet

[From: David D. Hagood]

Koen Kooi wrote:

> Please tell me I'm reading this wrong: 'swap file on the internal
> flash'. You do know that flash is broken after ~100k writes/cell, right?
> And you know that will break your 770, right?
> 
> 

I think you are living in the past. Modern flash chips have a write 
endurance of greater than a million cycles. Also, wear leveling means 
that even if you repeatedly write to the same logical sector number a 
million times, you will NOT have written to any one flash location over 
a million times. Life cycle endurance is not a reason not to use 
internal flash as swap.

Now, the fact that internal flash is a very limited resource and is not 
expandable, as is external flash - that is a reason not to use internal 
flash for swap.