[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] swapfile is a huge improvement!

[From: Larry Battraw]

  From what I remember when I've tried it, it generally crashes/reboots when
you remove the card.  Can't remember if the same thing happens when you
insert the USB cable.  I've found a way around the problems with it
unmounting because of the USB cable: I created a second partition (it's a
1GB card) and made the swapfile there.  I can use ext3 to get proper
permissions/execute support as well, so it's quite nice.  The only hangup is
having to manually remount it after a reboot, but it's worth the trouble.  A
GUI tool for toggling swap and mounts would sure be neat!  Removing the card
while the second partition is mounted is not a good idea and sometimes it
takes a reboot to fix it.

Larry

On 1/14/06, Vladislav Grinchenko <3rdshift at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Brad,
>
> with swap on, what happens to the system when you manually remove the
> mmc card? Or when you connect the USB cable to the unit?
>
> -Vlad
>
> On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 03:30, Brad Midgley wrote:
> > hey
> >
> > I decided to try the swap partition on my flash card and it made a HUGE
> > difference. Even with only 25mb swap (30mb wouldn't work for me), now
> > memory is not nearly the concern it was. I can run multiple apps, look
> > at complex pdf documents, etc. Just like I expected my 770 to do in the
> > first place!
> >
> > I think the vm may need to be tuned if nokia plans to keep shipping
> > these things with 64mb and no swap. Swap changes the character of the
> > vm, so even adding ram may not whip things into shape in the same way.
> >
> > Brad
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