Re: [maemo-users] Adding swap make system *LESS* stable

2006-01-30 Thread booiiing
2006/1/28, Armin M. Warda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, I think swap on a N770 is a plus for stability. I have been using > it for about 4 weeks now. > What I observe: if I have an OS crash or spontaneous reboot, then the > probablility of more of these unwelcome events to occur during the > next minu

Re: [maemo-users] Adding swap make system *LESS* stable

2006-01-28 Thread Armin M. Warda
On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:03, Frantisek Dufka wrote: > IMO 24 is more than enough. Even 16MB is a big improvement. I read the limit were 32Mbytes, so I use 31000 kbytes of swap in /dev/mmcvlkp2, which is more than enough. 16-20MBytes would also be sufficient. > I just think my device have

Re: [maemo-users] Adding swap make system *LESS* stable

2006-01-27 Thread Serge Semashko
David D. Hagood wrote: It seems to me that adding a 20M swap file makes my Nokia *less* stable, not more. I've tried both swap files on a MMC card as well as swap partitions, and in both cases it seems that I am more likely to crash the browser with swap enabled than with swap disabled. Has

Re: [maemo-users] Adding swap make system *LESS* stable

2006-01-27 Thread booiiing
2006/1/26, Michael Steinmetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Also sprach Frantisek Dufka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > For best usage the swap should contain what is really not needed > > (like dead code and other inefficiency in libraries and other useless > > junk). 16MB could be enough for swapping out this.

Re: [maemo-users] Adding swap make system *LESS* stable

2006-01-26 Thread Michael Steinmetz
Also sprach Frantisek Dufka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > For best usage the swap should contain what is really not needed > (like dead code and other inefficiency in libraries and other useless > junk). 16MB could be enough for swapping out this. I also think that > the improvement seen is caused by

Re: [maemo-users] Adding swap make system *LESS* stable

2006-01-26 Thread Frantisek Dufka
Hmm, I don't see this with my usage. I think swap is an improvement. But personally I don't understand complains about 24MB limitation. IMO 24 is more than enough. Even 16MB is a big improvement. For best usage the swap should contain what is really not needed (like dead code and other ineffic

[maemo-users] Adding swap make system *LESS* stable

2006-01-26 Thread David D. Hagood
It seems to me that adding a 20M swap file makes my Nokia *less* stable, not more. I've tried both swap files on a MMC card as well as swap partitions, and in both cases it seems that I am more likely to crash the browser with swap enabled than with swap disabled. Has anybody else seen this? _