Originally Posted by djlemur OK, so I tried it :-}
I set it to 64M via the web interface - no effect...
...so I tried the manual method you listed to add a 128M swap.
Creating the swap file and initialising it as swap is OK, however there is no start_enigma on this image, so you have to put the next bit in /var/etc/init instead.
BTW you can run swapon directly from the shell, no need to reboot.
This doesn't give you any speed improvements, but it does mean that if your dreambox runs out of memory for some reason, it will page to swap instead of hang/crashing. |
Nice one. I wonder then, what the overhead is in running with the swapfile enabled? Maybe it's safer but slower? Not sure about the hanging/crashing and how that would work when paging from the firmware in ROM... I know squat about the PowerPC architecture.
I guess there must be some overhead, but can't imagine that it's noticeable...? After all, it wouldn't be written-to during normal operation...
Have you noticed any side-effects?
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