Timeline for How to set up swap space?
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| Jan 11, 2022 at 17:56 | comment | added | Derek 朕會功夫 | It's enabled by default, which seems to contradict with this answer. | |
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| Mar 11, 2016 at 8:14 | comment | added | kaay | Way too strong. "best not", maybe, but "bad, wasteful, damaging and useless" is misleading. Everything wears with use, bear in mind oxygen is toxic, and Raspbian does use a swapfile. A slowdown is usually better than a crash, and lets you compile huge things once every few months. Just set low swappiness and you're good. | |
| May 13, 2015 at 11:05 | comment | added | Chris Hatton | Your warning, though well meaning, is way too strong. Finding out 'why not' as well as 'why' is exactly what the Raspberry Pi is for: try whatever you want with it and LEARN. There are also some good reasons to use an external drive for swap as well, such as satisfying a peak memory requirement for a one-off library compile; the search that brought me here. The times I learned the most is when I screwed up something minor and realised why. Sorry to say, you're not being as helpful as you think you are. | |
| Dec 17, 2013 at 22:11 | comment | added | Andrew Larsson | @finnw You just have to be careful, and yes, there are usually better options, but sometimes you just do what you have to do. | |
| Dec 17, 2013 at 22:06 | comment | added | finnw | @AndrewLarsson, I hope your external drive is not flash-based. Not that it is completely useless, the thing is you always have better options (magnetic drive, network drive, RAM-based SSD etc.) | |
| Dec 17, 2013 at 20:31 | comment | added | Andrew Larsson | Why does this answer have so many upvotes? There are plenty of reasons to use swap. I used a swap file on an external drive to compile a large library over the course of a few days. It's slow as dead monkeys floating in molasses, but that doesn't meant that you should "not do this at all." | |
| Aug 15, 2012 at 12:39 | comment | added | Kibbee | You would think that with the ReadyBoost technology in Windows that someone would make a USB Drive (or eSata, not sure if ReadyBoost can use that, would be of no use to raspberry pi, but would be interesting) that used actual RAM so you could boost your computer performance. Although it would probably be easier and cheaper to just buy a new motherboard that supported the amount of RAM you need. | |
| Jun 22, 2012 at 16:05 | comment | added | neofutur | no doubt swapping on a USB bey will kill your key very fast, swapping on the SD card is also dangerous, even if newer ( class 10 ) SD cards could support it better. ZRAM is clearly the way to go if you need more RAM | |
| Jun 19, 2012 at 0:49 | history | answered | finnw | CC BY-SA 3.0 |