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Howard Roark

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Does A Swap File Help On A C3k?
« on: May 01, 2005, 10:52:49 pm »
What is the point of creating a swap file on a C3K? Does it help speed things up?

If its useful, whats a good size?

 
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Does A Swap File Help On A C3k?
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2005, 10:57:32 pm »
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What is the point of creating a swap file on a C3K? Does it help speed things up?

If its useful, whats a good size?

 
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I don't recommend a swap file on _any_ embedded device, and I have never used swap on an embedded device.

The slowness you may experience is the microdrive.
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Does A Swap File Help On A C3k?
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2005, 11:06:18 pm »
In general, you don't need a swap on the C3000 if you are only running the stock sharp apps. However, if you start playing with X/Qt, Debian, OpenOffice, then you willl soon run out of memory so that's when you start to need a swap at the sacrifice for some speed. I am experiencing with 64MB to 128MB swapfiles.
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« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2005, 07:54:37 am »
I agree, don't enable swap unless you are doing something that runs out of memory and crashes.

Keep as much in RAM as possible is the best advice. If you can avoid running too much then you will benefit more greastly from cache.

I only enable swap if I'm compiling something really big onboard. In the past on PDAXROM I had to enable swap to build things like ClanLib and pingus.

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