Thread: Virtual memory - How much is enough?
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Originally Posted by hyartep View Post
has anyone used swap for longer period? i have turned it off, because i was afraid it would thrash my sd card.
I have a 1GB sandisk, Kingston - 2GB mmc mobile, and a 4GB minisd, and a 8GB SD.

I run swap partitions, and OS from all these cards. I have (I would guess) reflashed my devices, and recloned my cards hundreds if not thousands of times. I have never ever had 1 card issue.

I really wouldn't worry about it, although my kingstons have lifetimes warranties anyway.

As far as how much is enough, this may be different for different people. If your gonna burn CD/DVD or run KDE I would suggest about 225-256. Just running in maemo, I think 100MB would be plenty, although again it depends on whats running, and how you use your tablet. If you are having random hangs and reboots, consider increasing it
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