2006/1/26, Michael Steinmetz <st1 at finux.net>: > Also sprach Frantisek Dufka (dufkaf at seznam.cz): > > For best usage the swap should contain what is really not needed > > (like dead code and other inefficiency in libraries and other useless > > junk). 16MB could be enough for swapping out this. I also think that > > the improvement seen is caused by different behaviour of VM when it > > knows it has some spare swap just in case without actually using it. > As I understood, the limit for swap is below 32MB. I've tried to > circumvent this by using 4 swap files of 31MB each, but the device > crashed at boot after that, and had to be reflashed. the howto talks about 24mb and gives an exact byte-number i never tried using more than one swapfile. but the memory is indeed very small. if i open fbreader (which of course has some books in the library), nearly all the memory is used up.
