On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <mi...@bga.com> wrote:
> > 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. > > My experience thus far, single partition with ext2(noatime), swap as a file in /swap.img, 384MiB. > 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. > > Indeed. Or general website viewing. Web browsers don't seem particularly memory efficient these days. Tiago > 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 >
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