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| Jul 4, 2014 at 8:42 | comment | added | Mikko Rantalainen | Swapper 2 is a good tool for activating swap on rooted phones. However, be warned that due the way Android uses the memory (mostly by VMs using sweeping memory algorithms) swapping causes high IO load and if you swap to SD card, the overall latency will suffer a lot. I have found that having 5-10 MB swap is okay, though. The question is, are you hitting the lack of RAM bad enough to do the all the work for only 5-10 MB extra? Unfortunately, if you need much more, it's time to look for better hardware. | |
| Nov 21, 2011 at 11:38 | comment | added | Logos | Pretty much, yes, unless you want to root your phone and do it manually as per the G2 link. | |
| Nov 20, 2011 at 7:30 | comment | added | James Litewski | Okay. I think I get it, sorta. A 'Swap Space' on Mac is just 'Free Space'? But without a Mod, it'd need that (or an equivalent) app? | |
| Nov 16, 2011 at 16:01 | history | edited | Logos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added links to swap partition app & partitioning info.
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| Nov 16, 2011 at 15:55 | comment | added | Logos | Ah... just realized that mine automatically picks up on swap space because of some ROM customizations. Edited my original answer though to include a nice little app I found that will create a swap partition for you. | |
| Nov 16, 2011 at 15:19 | comment | added | Matthew Read | Adding a partition doesn't automatically the OS will use it for swap. That's not even true for Linux, at least not generally. | |
| Nov 16, 2011 at 10:33 | comment | added | Logos | @MatthewRead: I did tell the OP how, both in the original post ("You can partition your SD card and add a swap space to it") and the comment just above yours ("If you have a partitioning tool just pop your SD card into your computer, fire up the tool, shrink the FAT32 partition, and add a swap partition to the end)." | |
| Nov 15, 2011 at 23:10 | comment | added | Matthew Read | Even if you don't think the OP should do this, this post would be much improved with the "how". | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 22:33 | comment | added | Logos | Swap space is what you asked about: virtual memory. As @Robert mentioned, on Windows it's called pagefile.sys; OSX uses empty space on the boot partition. Most Linux distros (of which Android is one) use a separate partition, called the swap partition. If you have a partitioning tool just pop your SD card into your computer, fire up the tool, shrink the FAT32 partition, and add a swap partition to the end (512MB is probably enough). If the preceding doesn't make any sense to you, you're probably better off just living with your phone as it is. | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 19:21 | comment | added | James Litewski | I'm running a Mac.. Lol. | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 18:48 | comment | added | Robert | @James Litewski: That is a partition used by the system for storing memory sections that have been long time not used which disburdens the main memory. It is the Linux equivalent of the Windows file pagefile.sys - if you know what that is. | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 18:34 | comment | added | James Litewski | Alright, I've never heard the term 'swap space' what is that? | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 12:17 | history | answered | Logos | CC BY-SA 3.0 |