Hi guys, I have a 1 gyg external card but.., I can only extend 64mb virtual memory, I was thinking more along the lines of 512 or something, isn't this possible? cuz I can only select 64mb at maximum in control panel...

thanks!

Sure, but it's really no necessary.

wouldn't that make the tablet faster when for ex. running canola?

The largest of the build-in swap file is 64MB. I'm not sure whether you can use a larger swap file for this kernel, but you can always increase the swap by having more than one swap file.

You can try this. Open your terminal as root,
dd if=/dev/zero of=/media/mmc1/.swap2 bs=1024 count=65536
mkswap /media/mmc1/.swap2
swapon /media/mmc1/.swap2

The above creates another 64MB swap file, so together with the original 64MB, you have 128MB swap space. You can check it by the "free" command.

I doubt it helps much, unless you are using some memory hungry applications. You can also increase the swapiness to increase the usage. Check the package "seatbelt" in another thread that tweaked the swap usage settings.

I always just create a swap partition when partitioning my card.

Not really. If you're running enough applications to fill the RAM and the swap, it's gonna be slow no matter how much swap you have since flash memory is so slow.

This is one situation where Nokia does kinda know what they're doing.