My question was about that exactly: are there specific provisions in code to forcefully avoid usage of swap, or is it just that nobody tested it with swap?
---- Best Regards On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently Android isn't designed to be used with swap, ans isn't designed > to run in 32 MB RAM. > > > On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Dmitry Grinberg <[email protected]>wrote: > >> the entore ubuntu desktop starts with 16mb + swap, why wouldn't android? >> ---- >> Best Regards >> >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 10:48 PM, Dianne Hackborn <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> I really doubt you can run Android on 32MB or RAM. >>> >>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Dmitry Grinberg <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I have very little RAM, but I have swap enabled (I know it will be >>>> slow). Somehow android managed to avoid using swap and just dies. Where can >>>> I change this behaviour? [it boots fine with 64MB of ram, hangs with this >>>> problem on 32 or less] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ---- >>>> Best Regards, >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Brad Davis <[email protected]>wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Aug 29, 12:56 am, Dimka Kuznec <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> > does anyone have any pointers for me to help debug this issue? >>>>> >>>>> How much RAM do you have? >>>>> >>>>> There are processes that Android will restart (or retry) if they can't >>>>> run due to lack of resources (memory). A quick glance at init.rc >>>>> implies that "bootanim" may not have the resources to run (after >>>>> "media") and so "media" is being killed (but "media" has to run so it >>>>> is being restarted (this restart is so if any of the critical >>>>> software dies, the phone doesn't need a hard reboot...) >>>>> >>>>> You can comment "bootanim" out of the init.rc and see if you die in >>>>> "dbus" or later... >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> unsubscribe: >>>>> [email protected]<android-porting%[email protected]> >>>>> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> unsubscribe: >>>> [email protected]<android-porting%[email protected]> >>>> website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dianne Hackborn >>> Android framework engineer >>> [email protected] >>> >>> Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to >>> provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such >>> questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and >>> answer them. >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Dianne Hackborn > Android framework engineer > [email protected] > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails. All such > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see and > answer them. > > -- unsubscribe: [email protected] website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
