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BigBoss 2007-03-14 18:52

Virtual Memory for N800
 
What is the size of virtual memory, which will benefit the performance of N800 most? Is 64MB enough?

schmots 2007-03-14 19:23

Re: Virtual Memory for N800
 
I use 128.. because you can. You can also create swap partitions on your card and use those.. however that will reduce the life expentancy of the card

TA-t3 2007-03-14 21:14

Re: Virtual Memory for N800
 
I haven't actually enabled any swap space yet for my N800.. it's been happy with its 128MB RAM so far, no out-of-memory problems (yet). Mostly I don't run more than a few apps at the same time, although I may have up to 3 opera instances running.

Milhouse 2007-03-15 01:40

Re: Virtual Memory for N800
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by schmots (Post 39143)
You can also create swap partitions on your card and use those.. however that will reduce the life expentancy of the card

Is there any real evidence for this?

BigBoss 2007-03-15 02:01

Re: Virtual Memory for N800
 
What is the size of your internal memory card? Can you tell me how to create swap partitions? Thanks.


Quote:

Originally Posted by schmots (Post 39143)
I use 128.. because you can. You can also create swap partitions on your card and use those.. however that will reduce the life expentancy of the card


schmots 2007-03-15 12:41

Re: Virtual Memory for N800
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Milhouse (Post 39207)
Is there any real evidence for this?

Swap will in essences constantly read and write for the card. Based on the "Life Cycles" of memory cards, it will limit its life. Now does this mean it will only work for 10 years instead of 50, I don't know.. never had a memory card stop working.

Milhouse 2007-03-15 17:05

Re: Virtual Memory for N800
 
@schmots: you're correct of course - writing will lessen the life expectancy of a card. I'd like to know if there is any evidence that confirms how much the life expectancy of a card is reduced by writes, I'm guessing this kind of information is fairly thin on the ground and that most cards, even with a swap file, will outlive the usefulness of N800 device itself! :)

BigBoss 2007-03-15 17:39

Re: Virtual Memory for N800
 
What is swap file?

Can anyone tell me the size of memory I should allocate for virtural memory?

Mika73 2007-03-15 17:53

Re: Virtual Memory for N800
 
I suppose that even using those as virtual memory does less their life.. Memory card does last logn enought. And cards are cheap anyway. I guess when my 4GB stops working, card like that cost very little.

BigBoss 2007-03-16 01:47

Re: Virtual Memory for N800
 
Dear Mika73, you use all yr 4GB as VM?


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