Still, I thought it would be fun to add since Android runs a linux kernel and linux likes swap.
I think you can do some interesting things. If you have swap, you can perhaps encourage the kernel to swap out some rarely used processes like Xfinity, etc. (or at least some portions of it. Isn't it annoying how Xfinity always sticks around). Then you can tell the kernel to use more of the RAM for cache, thus making the phone faster. I know android already does a good job in managing memory and killing off less used processes but I think with swap we'd have a lot more flexibility.
Well, let's give it a shot, shall we?
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/sdcard/swap bs=1k count=100000Promising...
100000+0 records in
100000+0 records out
100000 bytes transferred in 0.713 secs (140252 bytes/sec)
# mkswap /mnt/sdcard/swapWhoa! Looking good...
Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 95904 bytes
# swapon /mnt/sdcard/swap
swapon: /mnt/sdcard/swap: Function not implemented
Ahah. I tried the same on the Motorola Milestone 2 (A953) and experienced the same problem.
ReplyDeleteToo bad. :'|
install busybox
ReplyDeletewow, didn't notice the date my goodness this post is 2 years old.
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