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

[Craig <>]

IMHO, if you need swap on a TS system, you are using the board for more than you should

Jason Stahls wrote:

 

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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