On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:58:44PM +0200, Tilman Baumann wrote: > Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:42:52 +0200 Tilman Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > babbled: > > > > no.. you need to find who is leaking memory and beat them up! :) seriously. > > 128m is more than enough. it's almost overkill. needing swap (on a device > > like > > the freerunner) is a sign of "stupid programming" :) > > I understand your Argument and it is true. But the conclusion is wrong. > Even if you don't have obvious leaks, some memory will not be used most > of the time and can be safely dumped out of the RAM. > Like some background process which is sleeping almost all the time. Or > other multitasked apps which are not used currently. > Or all the fat frameworks which probably take some memory for code or > data which are almost never used. > > All this memory is wasted on valuable RAM. Even if only a hand full of > pages end on swap, they are saved from clogging up RAM.
But every access to swap will mean a significant decrease of battery life. Rui -- Keep the Lasagna flying! Today is Pungenday, the 14th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community