On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Chris Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:14:53 am Nick Van Fossen wrote: > >> So, I'm a bit lazy so instead of going through the trouble of adding a swap >> partition, I just created a swap file. > > I would say that you're not necessarily being lazy there, if you configure a > swap partition then you are limiting where the kernel can write bytes on the > SD card which will lead to uneven wear on it. > > In future with a COW SSD aware wear-leveling filsystem like btrfs a swap file > may end up being more SD friendly as the filesystem may (hopefully!) balance > out those writes across the card.
I saw this project some time ago. It seems nice but I don't know if it can be useful for you. I tested with an old laptop I had (X86) and it worked well. About 7 months ago the author said he had crashes in ARM arch ... I did not test and I do not know whether the crashes were fixed. http://code.google.com/p/compcache/ N.- _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community