Nice to hear, sr00t, but as i understand it, the problem is not with general Easy Debian use, but with initial unpacking Easy Debian image. That shouldn't take more than 15 minutes, but many time last for 2 hours, and you may not see happy ending, because N900 tend to reboot after long time of 0 responsiveness.

It apply to any big file unpacking (or even copying!) in general, not only Easy Debian.

My stone to the garden - i use swap on SD class 2 only, and even with such low class, i see massive improvement, don't even need to use swapoff/swapon. Have in mind that i also tweaked nr_request to 256. That seems quite opposite to setting proposed in first post of this topic - maybe it need update?