On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Ganesh Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am asking silly doubt. Why embedded linux not having swap partition,



   - From a design perspective, the design team will know how much RAM is
   required for a purpose built embedded device. This amount of RAM would have
   been provisioned physically.
   - For a general purpose device, we can safely assume permanent storage
   would typically be on board flash or memory cards. Any flash based
   permanent storage has a fixed `life` or write cycles after which it is
   likely to fail. Continuous use of swap file will reduce the effective life
   of the device.


Regards,
Arun
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