UPDATE: I happened to run across GeneralAntilles in an IRC room and he graciously answered my question for me:

"No, it really only helps. Speeds things up just a touch in high-memory situations and helps prevent out-of-memory crashes in really high-memory situations."

So there you go!

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I've spent the last hour or so reading all the forums posts that come up when searching for "swap" so hopefully I'm not being redundant. If it's been discussed, please point me in the right direction (and forgive me).

I'm running OS 2008 on my n800. I just got my new 8gb SDHC card in the mail. Since that's got about all the space I could conceivably want for files and whatnot, I decided I might as well put the Nokia 128 meg mini-SD card in the internal slot and enable it for swap via the control panel. Not that I've noticed the device being slow or that I particularly need it, but I figured, "Why not, I'm not doing anything else with the slot."

Is my reasoning correct? Are there any downsides to extending swap onto the internal card? Decrease battery life? Increase tension in the middle east? Raise my receding hair line?

Thanks,

-SG