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Re: [ts-7000] SWAP on SD card or Flash

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] SWAP on SD card or Flash
From: Jason Stahls <>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:32:33 -0500
Peter Harrison wrote:
>> I wish to know how to enable swap feature on Debian Linux for the SD card or 
>> for the flash of the TS board? Any help will be appreciated.
> I don't know off hand, but using flash for swap will almost certainly
> toast your flash in no time as it can only handle a limited number of
> writes. Usually this isn't a problem, but using it as swap space will
> be both hideously slow and damaging to the flash itself.

Ditto, if you absolutely need the swap space (native kernel compile or 
something) then use a NFS share and create a swapfile.  It will be slow, 
but it won't damage your flash or SD card.  Swapping to flash is almost 
never a good idea.

-- 
Jason Stahls


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