Thread: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
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_David_ is offline _David_
2013-03-29 , 13:39
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Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast View Post
As for checking Swap Used on eMMC is was removed for two reasons, one it didn't calculate it correctly so the values are actually incorrect and finally it messed up calculating the uSD swap correctly.
FlopSwap only supports swapping to uSD (in the set locations in the wiki) so is pointless if you only have swap on internal.
The whole idea is internal swap is only used as a backup for memory card removal.
Ah it seemed to correspond quite well and is useful both a) as a reassuring indication that the N900 isn't so much slow as memory bound and swap-fragmented and b) as a guide to when to reboot because swap fragmentation is causing slowdown.

There is no need for you to reinstate the function. 0.0.4, even if inaccurate, seems adequate for these needs.

As soon as I figure out how to get hold of the fastest uSD card for swapping, I'll be buying one.

Perhaps you know if Swappolube's Page-Cluster has relevance here? I've found that 6 works better than 5 and optimal could be as high as 9 since swapping could be 200% faster with the right uSD card.

So whilst 5 swaps 128kb at a time, 9 swaps 2MB at a time, so I should be looking for the fastest 1-2MB writes?
 

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