Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-19 Thread Helge Hafting
Nick Van Fossen wrote: Just as a helpful note, adding swap space seems to help against application crashes. I've always had issues with tangoGPS and the various webbrower apps crashing. Looking into it a little more I notice that this was occurring when the puny 128MB of memory was

Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-18 Thread Fox Mulder
Nick Van Fossen wrote: Just as a helpful note, adding swap space seems to help against application crashes. I've always had issues with tangoGPS and the various webbrower apps crashing. Looking into it a little more I notice that this was occurring when the puny 128MB of memory was getting

Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-17 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 6:21:10 pm Carsten Haitzler wrote: i can keep hunting down more references - but its meant to be part of the spec. cards should do it - some may do it better than others (ie name brands - cost more, lifetime warranties), and some el-cheapo ones may skip it to cut costs.

Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-17 Thread Kishore
On Saturday 17 Jan 2009 12:51:10 pm Carsten Haitzler wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:31:35 +0530 Kishore kitts.mailingli...@gmail.com babbled: http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv016.cgi?read=92882 (search for wear levelling - message # 4): Part of the SD spec is something

Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-17 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 17:29:12 +0530 Kishore kitts.mailingli...@gmail.com babbled: even openmoko's wiki: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Booting_from_SD SD cards are supposed to support wear leveling, but this can not be guaranteed for all vendors. :) i can keep hunting down more

[Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-16 Thread Nick Van Fossen
Just as a helpful note, adding swap space seems to help against application crashes. I've always had issues with tangoGPS and the various webbrower apps crashing. Looking into it a little more I notice that this was occurring when the puny 128MB of memory was getting filled up. So, I added

Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-16 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/1/17 Nick Van Fossen stix...@hotmail.com: Just as a helpful note, adding swap space seems to help against application crashes. I've always had issues with tangoGPS and the various webbrower apps crashing. Looking into it a little how were you getting tangogps to crash, it's probably the

Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Samuel
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:14:53 am Nick Van Fossen wrote: So, I'm a bit lazy so instead of going through the trouble of adding a swap partition, I just created a swap file. I would say that you're not necessarily being lazy there, if you configure a swap partition then you are limiting where the

Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org wrote: On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:14:53 am Nick Van Fossen wrote: So, I'm a bit lazy so instead of going through the trouble of adding a swap partition, I just created a swap file. I would say that you're not necessarily being lazy

Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-16 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:03:03 +1100 Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org babbled: On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:14:53 am Nick Van Fossen wrote: So, I'm a bit lazy so instead of going through the trouble of adding a swap partition, I just created a swap file. I would say that you're not necessarily

Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-16 Thread Kishore
On Saturday 17 Jan 2009 6:13:37 am Carsten Haitzler wrote: as such the sd-card should be doing wear-levelling for you as it maps logical to physical addresses and has an erase pool with extra blocks to play with. it can be improved by a better fs aware of the algorithms that card uses - but

Re: [Om2008.12] Adding swap space can stop app crashes

2009-01-16 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:31:35 +0530 Kishore kitts.mailingli...@gmail.com babbled: http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv016.cgi?read=92882 (search for wear levelling - message # 4): Part of the SD spec is something called wear leveling. This attempts to spread writes out to