Idea Blade/ZTE Blade comes with 167 MB usable memory. Their is no way you can install CyanogenMod9/10 in such a low RAM. However I took a chance and installed CM9 and it slogs like hell. Swapper2 can be used to add swap, but it adds another memory and space constraint. drewhill77 came up with an excellent way to add swap without installing swapper2. This is a simple way using which a swap is added in typical UNIX system.
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improve performance by reducing swappiness in ubuntu
A simple lag in your computer is noticeable and annoying. When your RAM is hosting inactive data (for eg: Openoffice, unused tabs from browser, media player paused etc) it tends to move it to swap partition which is in most cases a hard drive which is much slower than your RAM. The free’d RAM is used for active processes. Continue Reading…
How to add swap to existing Linux installation ?
In many embedded devices such as beagleboard, pandaboard, olimex etc Linux boots
entirely from sdcard, many times we run out of RAM and obviously forget to add
swap space during installation. The simplest way would be resizing the existing rootfs
partition and make a new partition of desired space to accommodate swap. Continue Reading…