[Announce][Fremantle] FlopSwap - Swap GUI Management

[sixwheeledbeast]

Originally Posted by vetsin

If what I see is placebo then I'm still good.
It's my first time swapping to SD and I read somewhere that it can help unclog internal flash i/o read/write traffic or something to that effect and I think that is what I'm observing.
The stuttering-while-listening-to-8tracks-while-doing-other-things seems to be due to cpu limit. I was looking at conky while testing and cpu usage was around 100 so moving swap to SD can't really help.

Exactly, you will find this ingrates with Swappolube's proposed settings and CSSU-Thumb to make a snappier device over all.

[vetsin]

that's my setup right now. Flopswap was last in the recipe.

[Il_Principe]

Hi.
Today i've installed flopswap from repositories.
It's a fantastic application, but i've a problem: i can't start the swap at boot, infact nothing happens if i select the option and if i restart the program it's unselected.
Can you help me?
Thanks.

[handaxe]

Originally Posted by Il_Principe

Hi.
Today i've installed flopswap from repositories.
It's a fantastic application, but i've a problem: i can't start the swap at boot, infact nothing happens if i select the option and if i restart the program it's unselected.
Can you help me?
Thanks.

You need to provide more info about what you have done as now, I must guess. If you are relying on flopswop alone to create swap partitions on SD card then you are asking too much of it.

See http://wiki.maemo.org/Flopswap

[Il_Principe]

I've three partitions on sd card: the first one (mmcblk1p1) is an ext4, the others are swap (both of 768 MB).
I did everything following the wiki.
The program goes well for everything (refreshing moves the swap on sd the first time, then on the other swap partition on card), except for the problem of boot.

[vetsin]

This is what the wiki says:

The easiest way is to use GParted on a desktop. Then make two equally sized "linux-swap" partitions, 800MB is fine. These partitions should be located after the first FAT partition.

so maybe your first partition should be in FAT, not ext4.

[sixwheeledbeast]

Originally Posted by vetsin

This is what the wiki says:

so maybe your first partition should be in FAT, not ext4.

I doubt very much that having a different filesystem will effect FlopSwap.
As long as the file system is on the correct partitions it will work.

The reason FAT is recommended is stock Maemo shows the card as corrupt if FAT is not the first partition.

As for the swap at boot issue:-

How are you checking the device is not switching to uSD swap?
Have you modified your booting process or used Ereswap?
With the "Start at boot" option checked, does the file /etc/event.d/relocateswap exist?

The checkbox checks to see if the file /etc/event.d/relocateswap exists. When checked and the dialog closed it installs a copy of the upstart file from /opt/flopswap

At the moment I cannot reproduce any issue.

[Il_Principe]

I didn't modified my boot process or installed ereswap.
I check the swap with flopswap (version 0.0.5) or with the command

cat /proc/swaps

The problem is that with "Start at boot" option checked, the file /etc/event.d/relocateswap doesn't exist. Maybe it's a question of root permission.

[sixwheeledbeast]

Originally Posted by Il_Principe

I didn't modified my boot process or installed ereswap.
I check the swap with flopswap (version 0.0.5) or with the command

cat /proc/swaps

The problem is that with "Start at boot" option checked, the file /etc/event.d/relocateswap doesn't exist. Maybe it's a question of root permission.

How strange.
Does /opt/flopswap/relocateswap exist?
I wouldn't think it's a permissions issue as flopswap has it's own sudoers file in /etc/sudoers.d/flopswap. Plus I have not had this issue before on others devices or my own. However it does seem the upstart file is not being created.

So if you check the box and close the dialog and then open the settings again the box is unchecked, correct?

Edit:-
I have purged flopswap and reinstalled the latest on my test device. I still cannot reproduce your issue.

However I have just spotted your other thread. It's possible that the upstart file is being ignored because your partitions are not correct. If the upstart file fails to work it will fallback to internal swap via the default method.

[Il_Principe]

Yes, /opt/flopswap/relocateswap exist.
The option is checked if i select it and then close and open again settings, but is unchecked at the next restart of flopswap.
However checking box doesn't create /etc/event.d/relocateswap.