Does it make sense to have the kernel use a swap partition?
Al Johnson
openmoko at mazikeen.demon.co.uk
Thu Jul 24 18:10:01 CEST 2008
On Thursday 24 July 2008, Jim Colton wrote:
> If so, what are the consequences to the longevity of the SD Card?
Depends what you're doing I suppose. It'll be relatively slow; the SD and the
graphics data both go over the same relatively restricted bus. If you need
more than the available RAM for something and aren't worried about the
performance hit then it may be worth it.
As for the lifetime of the card, I doubt it'll be a problem. I've seen
calculations suggesting the lifetime for continuous random writes on flash
drives is now in years. In practise I've seen machines with CF cards as their
only storage and reasonably heavy write usage that have an uptime approaching
3 years. I've not seen CF fail due to excessive writes in about 4 years of
using them, and I suspect SD is now similar.
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