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.<div>
<br></div><div>Tiago<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Tiago Marques <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tiagomnm@gmail.com">tiagomnm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Mikus Grinbergs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikus@bga.com" target="_blank">mikus@bga.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
> Downsides<br>
> - Increased SD card wear<br>
<br>
For about two years now, I've been defining a swap partition on the<br>
(external) "permanent" SD card I use with my XO-1 systems. So far, I<br>
have never experienced any problems with that setup.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>My experience thus far, single partition with ext2(noatime), swap as a file in /swap.img, 384MiB.</div><div class="im"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
The advantage is to relieve "memory pressure". In particular, I am a<br>
heavy user of 'yum' - and that swap space (together with judicious<br>
specification for /var/cache/yum) allows me to run HUGE yum installs.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Indeed. Or general website viewing. Web browsers don't seem particularly memory efficient these days.</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>Tiago</div></font><div class="im">
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
mikus<br>
<br>
<br>
p.s. By the way, I also had a swap partition on the (external)<br>
"permanent" SD card I had in an XO-1.5. But unless running an<br>
"unreasonable" number of Activities simultaneously, I do not recall ever<br>
seeing that swap partition on the XO-1.5 being used -- apparently the<br>
larger RAM size on the XO-1.5 rarely gets into "memory pressure".<br>
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