a2sd vs. swap partition - your recommendation

[Guest Rdy2Go]

I've got r2 ROM working just fine with 4 GB SD card: 3,4 GB for FAT32 data partition and 0,6 GB ext3 partition for a2sd

Does it make sense to create another SWAP partition?

Device has lots of RAM and SWAP is slow as hell, am I wrong?

[Guest yabolek]

I've got r2 ROM working just fine with 4 GB SD card: 3,4 GB for FAT32 data partition and 0,6 GB ext3 partition for a2sd

Does it make sense to create another SWAP partition?

Device has lots of RAM and SWAP is slow as hell, am I wrong?

IMO You are right. If the phones start swapping out memory to SD card it will be terribly slow anyway.

Besides, if its starting to be short of physical RAM I would suggest looking for a misbehaving app.

[Guest potter97]

IMO You are right. If the phones start swapping out memory to SD card it will be terribly slow anyway.

Besides, if its starting to be short of physical RAM I would suggest looking for a misbehaving app.

Ah wish i cam across this sooner, i also have the 4gb card, but have partitioned it as

Swap = 512mb

ext3 = 1024mb < Loads i know

fat32 = rest of space.

I have not noticed it any slower in fact after this added swap, my phone has been amazingly responsive, but now im worried about all the read/write cycles on the swap partition's gonna land my SDcard into an early grave.

So is it best to reflash and just have the fat32 and ext3 partition?

thanks in advance guys :P

[Guest yabolek]

Ah wish i cam across this sooner, i also have the 4gb card, but have partitioned it as

Swap = 512mb

ext3 = 1024mb < Loads i know

fat32 = rest of space.

I have not noticed it any slower in fact after this added swap, my phone has been amazingly responsive, but now im worried about all the read/write cycles on the swap partition's gonna land my SDcard into an early grave.

So is it best to reflash and just have the fat32 and ext3 partition?

thanks in advance guys :P

Maybe I'm missing something here, but how exactly can it be faster?

If you swap a memory page to sd, then reading it back is a LOT slower than from the physical RAM.

[Guest boge]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but how exactly can it be faster?

If you swap a memory page to sd, then reading it back is a LOT slower than from the physical RAM.

maybe the swap part was never been used at all... since desire has quite a lot of ram... and the memory management ini android is quite good to kill the unused apps...

[Guest potter97]

Maybe I'm missing something here, but how exactly can it be faster?

If you swap a memory page to sd, then reading it back is a LOT slower than from the physical RAM.

I mean it "seemed" more responsive to me (never actually said faster, read properly).

But thats why i have asked... as obviously i dont really know for Fact!,

Maybe the other post is right, maybe it is skipping the swap all together.

Dose anyone know of a way to tell if the swap is actually being used? or if it has even been accessed ?

Many thanks in advance for any replys

[Guest ScHizNiK]

Dose anyone know of a way to tell if the swap is actually being used? or if it has even been accessed ?

Many thanks in advance for any replys

found this whilst googling to see if its worth adding a swap partition to my desire, you can run "free" from a prompt (and maybe with adb as well).

I have 22mb free out of 408mbps at the moment, with zeros on the swap line

(and yes, I realise that the parent posts are over 2 months old. :angry:)