<div dir="ltr">External swap area sounds cool. How does one set it up? I'll give it a whirl.<br>-iXo<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 14:55, Andrew Burgess <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:elist@cichlid.com">elist@cichlid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2008/8/8 Ixo X oxI <<a href="mailto:ixo@myna.ws">ixo@myna.ws</a>>:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> I should also add another case.<br>
><br>
> I have a customized install of firefox (download tarball, alias to run out<br>
> of /home/olpc). Sometimes when I run Firefox, and forget about the limited<br>
> memory size... after about 6 tabs of pages, the whole systems "molasses<br>
> effect"... I suspect due to memory swapping madly to keep up. Soon after it<br>
> starts to bog down, sugar kills the activity and I see a suddent speed<br>
> increase. :)<br>
<br>
</div>Have you tried with a swap partition? Swap is robust now on a<br>
SD card, immune to suspend/resume and power cycle.<br>
<br>
I use opera with many tabs and easily get 100MB swapped out. As<br>
you say, it doesn't work otherwise.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> I haven't tried this with the newer firefox.xo activity (with FireFox 3.x).<br>
<br>
</div>3.x is supposed to have alot of memory leaks fixed...<br>
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