> And come on. Software is not perfect. Sometimes we have to live with a > dreamteam like (old) firefox and x11. I had times when they had both > hundreds of megs virtual mem. But everything was fine because it all was > just harmlessly been swaped away. I restarted them every weekend to not > let it become worse. > Not ideal, but should the system rather be unusable in this condition?
You're assuming the system will be usable when an application misbehaves and 50mb gets swapped out. On a desktop, sure your points are valid. I'm not sure this is true on Freerunner. None of the embedded systems I've used have had swap. What happens when you haven't received a call for several hours and the application you're using forces it to swap out? Can you still answer a call in time? I'd rather see a smart oom killer which will only kill non-essential applications. Adding 128mb of swap just pushes the problem back and slows down the entire phone. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
