On 14 April 2011 06:16, Mikus Grinbergs <mi...@bga.com> wrote: >> Might 1GB of RAM become a performance bottleneck? > > I myself am skeptical of efforts to use the OLPC where a desktop system > might be more effective. I've run various large applications on an XO-1.5 > system, and have not myself experienced "memory shortage". > > Unless the RAM chips on the XO-1.75 are socketed (and thus easily > replaceable), it seems to me that it would be easier to add swap space > (rather than RAM) to those systems used to run particularly memory-hungry > applications (such as video editing).
Flash storage is mush slower than spinning hard drives and wears out far more quickly. I don't think using flash for swap is a good idea. More RAM can be used for write caching, which can greatly improve performance (depending on the load). Sridhar _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
