<div dir="ltr">Thank you for writing Andy.<br><br>I see about 12M of 128M left while only Terminal-2 and the Dialer are running.<br>I think a common configuration is to allot twice the amount of real memory as swap. That way one can notice/see the degradation and swap being used and still have room to do something (because of the available swap) before the system bogs down to unusable whereas with no swap the system would become locked up quick.<br>
<br>Does that seem sensible to you?<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Al Johnson <<a href="mailto:openmoko@mazikeen.demon.co.uk">openmoko@mazikeen.demon.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thursday 24 July 2008, Jim Colton wrote:<br>
> If so, what are the consequences to the longevity of the SD Card?<br>
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</div>Depends what you're doing I suppose. It'll be relatively slow; the SD and the<br>
graphics data both go over the same relatively restricted bus. If you need<br>
more than the available RAM for something and aren't worried about the<br>
performance hit then it may be worth it.<br>
<br>
As for the lifetime of the card, I doubt it'll be a problem. I've seen<br>
calculations suggesting the lifetime for continuous random writes on flash<br>
drives is now in years. In practise I've seen machines with CF cards as their<br>
only storage and reasonably heavy write usage that have an uptime approaching<br>
3 years. I've not seen CF fail due to excessive writes in about 4 years of<br>
using them, and I suspect SD is now similar.<br>
<br>
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