{"id":103,"date":"2012-03-23T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2012-03-23T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:08:38","slug":"swap-on-sd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"SWAP on SD?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been having continuing problems with yum<\/strong> ‘hanging’ on my Dreamplug – through several different versions of Fedora, and numerous kernel updates (currently FC17 and Kernel 3.3..)<\/p>\n

The Fedora rootfs image did not include any swap, so – after some digging around – I decided to add a .\/SWAP file, and activate it…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The results (so far) seem to be positive, and yum<\/strong> appears to run faster, and doesn’t ‘hang’…<\/p>\n

The whole ‘Swap on SD Cards’ saga seems to be somewhat controversial – with some claims that it will ‘wear out the card’…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The whole idea of using an off-the-shelf SD Card as a ‘disk drive’ is a compromise, in any case, and it has been mentioned that a good-quality card will last for a good time, compared to other components in the system..<\/p>\n

So — my .\/SWAP (800MB) will stay, for the time being…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been having continuing problems with yum ‘hanging’ on my Dreamplug – through several different versions of Fedora, and numerous kernel updates (currently FC17 and Kernel 3.3..) The Fedora rootfs image did not include any swap, so – after some digging around – I decided to add a .\/SWAP file, and activate it…\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The results (so …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,14,16],"tags":[1174,154,184,242,332,335,352,431],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreamplug","category-fedora","category-kernel","category-linux-arm","tag-arm","tag-fedora-2","tag-hang","tag-linux","tag-sd-card","tag-sdcard","tag-swap","tag-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}