the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread Mikus Grinbergs
Helped a friend install os8 on his XO-1. When we got done, he decided to enter the command 'yum install gparted'. Yum failed with a not enough memory error. I happened to have an SD card with me that had a swap partition defined on it. The XO's SD slot was already in use, so I attached an

Re: the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread Tiago Marques
It seems you got lucky, the most common behavior is for it to crash. I've been an advocate of SWAP for the XO since I got one, even things like browsing become many times faster. It becomes even more important on the XO OS because it seems to take up anywhere from 30-80MiB more than a similar

Re: the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 15:10, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: It seems you got lucky, the most common behavior is for it to crash. I've been an advocate of SWAP for the XO since I got one, even things like browsing become many times faster. It becomes even more important on the XO OS

Re: the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread Martin Dengler
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 03:28:08PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 15:10, Tiago Marques tiago...@gmail.com wrote: It seems you got lucky, the most common behavior is for it to crash. I've been an advocate of SWAP for the XO since I got one, even things like browsing

Re: the importance of providing swap space

2009-10-23 Thread John Gilmore
I happened to have an SD card with me that had a swap partition defined on it. The XO's SD slot was already in use, so I attached an USB card reader (with my card in it), and issued the appropriate 'swapon /dev/...' command. I'd suggest a small enhancement: that when a removable medium