BTW, the card is a Sandisk 4GiB Class 2, bought used on eBay. First one bought for installing OSs, going stronger where others have failed with a lot less use. Approximately 1GiB is free, not touching the NAND for anything other than testing new XO OS releases.
Tiago On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Tiago Marques <tiago...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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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