Re: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
 

Thanks for the video.

This is another good point, writing swap and reading/writing data.
There is only so much bandwidth so if large amounts of swap are moving to the card this will slow the other card processes down.

As an aside, I am after some feedback of the new statusbar in FlopSwap what do we think?

Re: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
 

you mean the x% (xxMB of total swap MB) ?

Very useful, thanks for the fun program.

Suggestions statusbar:

-option to set auto update interval for status bar
-make buttons smaller compared to status bar (especially move to device, we don't want to push this accidentally wearing our precious eMMC.
-make font / bar larger so it can be more easily read from minimized status amongst many open programs
-colored font: green < 50 % / orange / red > 85% ?
edit:
-maybe just add the latest "show current" information to the status bar SD Swap1 or SD Swap 2 or Device.

Re: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
 

It this really useful?
I mean the auto-update at boot should be enough, I wouldn't want something using CPU in the background, otherwise I would look at having a daemon instead.

This is easily possible, I will look into it.

This was my original idea but I wanted to see how the statusbar worked without colours first.

This maybe possible, at the moment they are separate scripts. I maybe able to have another statusbar below with this on. However, the show current button grabs the "cat /proc/swaps" information live, whereas a statusbar may have to be refreshed.

Re: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
 

What's your swappiness setting?

Re: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
 

Via the program Swappolube: proposed settings.

This was written as comment under the movie on Vimeo but I guess when embedded it doesn't show the comment under the movie.


Of course I don't like stuff running in the background either, but some people may prefer cool tuning information being displayed instead of reserving every possible resource for actual "productivity multitasking" :)

Thanks for the good program, using it for over a week now, seems only 512MB swap space works well enough for me.

Re: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
 

I would suggest having a play with your swapiness settings instead of making your swap spaces smaller.

Re: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
 

Thank you, will try that later, but for the time being I am curious in finding out what happens when I shrink the swap space when other parameters remain same.

On the large swap end things are more in need of adjustment:

do you have any advice on how to adjust swapiness to the device semi-freezing experienced with 1,5 - 3GB SWAP sizes after leaving a lot of applications open for a while?

I am interested to achieve the same smoothness like with small swap space (500-800MB) without haveing to worry of ever running out of RAM + SWAP memory.

Re: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
 

Snappiness is not only about swappiness.

I accidentally used swappolube to go even below the 30 swappiness value (which seems better) but hereby forgot to activate the other parameters which were then not set/changed on boot. And device was not usable at all! (to the extent that I restored a backup as I did not know what was going on :().
There is a thread and settings floating around, best ones from vi_, freemangordon or Estel

Re: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
 

Flopswap 0.2.1 uploaded to extras-devel

* New Layout

Let me know what you think

Re: [Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management
 

What about a possible asking for confirmation when moving to device and a visual progress bar for the used swap?

Thanks for your work!