> Downsides > - Increased SD card wear For about two years now, I've been defining a swap partition on the (external) "permanent" SD card I use with my XO-1 systems. So far, I have never experienced any problems with that setup.
The advantage is to relieve "memory pressure". In particular, I am a heavy user of 'yum' - and that swap space (together with judicious specification for /var/cache/yum) allows me to run HUGE yum installs. mikus p.s. By the way, I also had a swap partition on the (external) "permanent" SD card I had in an XO-1.5. But unless running an "unreasonable" number of Activities simultaneously, I do not recall ever seeing that swap partition on the XO-1.5 being used -- apparently the larger RAM size on the XO-1.5 rarely gets into "memory pressure". _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel