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2011-09-11 , 19:44
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#137
Originally Posted by freemangordon View Post
Do not use backing swap, it is EXTREMELY SLOW, second swap is much better in terms of performance. Of course it is much better to be on SD card instead on internal flash.
Some sort of OT question, but I do not get it:
what is the difference of backing swap and second swap?

I do understand that enabling another swap (after the first) will just give some more amount of swap, if first one overflows. Right?
And the prority of first enabled swap is always higher (or use swapon with option -p 32767, enhanced busybox).

So where is the difference of backing/second?
 

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