Thread: N900 generally slow and unresponsive
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Soulfarmer is offline Soulfarmer
2010-02-03 , 15:02
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#50
Originally Posted by Catacylsm View Post

Soulfarmer, i believe the swap memory is just like page filing, say if your running a windows PC, and you have your machine set up for heavy page filing, your read and write speed will degrade the further it fulls up (ios loads etc) i believe this is the exact same case.
I fully understand what the swap means, but what I don't understand is why the swap usage seems to just get bigger and not smaller at all. I would like to find out how to reduce the use of the swap or at least how to "purge" it somehow instead of booting the device every few days.
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