[maemo-developers] swap not a substitute for virtual memory

[From: Tony Green]

> For what it is worth, after I removed /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler, my
> system went from being completely unusable for anything but being a
> broken alarm clock to being relatively useful.

metalayer-crawler's generally only a system-hog at bootup, so shouldn't cause 
many problems unless you completely shut down and reboot your device rather 
than just suspending it.

I must admit to being surprised how badly it slows the system down, since 
according to the init file, it apparently should be running with a niceness 
of 19, so should pretty much only get CPU time when nothing else requires it.

The only other time I've found it kicks in is on the odd occasion I've copied 
large number of files onto the device, but apart from that it never gives me 
any hassle except if I want to use my device straight after booting.

-- 
Tony Green
Ipswich, Suffolk, England
http://www.beermad.org.uk
http://no2id-ip.web-brewer.co.uk

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