Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > 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.
There are probably some kernel-knobs to fiddle with to make the kernel behave very conservative in regards to how early it pages something out. A ideal swap would only be filled with stuff that is not to be read again for ages. Or in other words, it should be as un-dynamic as possible. -- Drucken Sie diese Mail bitte nur auf Recyclingpapier aus. Please print this mail only on recycled paper. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
