Swap Files

Forum: DSL Embedded
Topic: Swap Files
started by: livinghell

Posted by livinghell on July 15 2006,14:34

i have DSL enbeeded in a 256 mb kingston flash drive it has been useful but has always been really slow i know that it doesnt have a swap file can these be created on the embedded install thanks

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on July 15 2006,19:03

First of all, qemu is slow... and I believe the accelerator for it only works on linux so far.
I think it would be better to just increase the memory allocation passed to qemu, rather than create a swap on your flashdrive.

But if you want to use swap, you can use use a blank image (hdb I think is an example by default in dsl-embedded), and partition that as Linux swap.

Posted by desnotes on July 16 2006,13:22

Kqemu, the qemu accelerator does run in Windows also. Check out the docs at < http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/user-doc.html > for setting up the accelerator. For windows it is simple and quick to implement. Also, check out < http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/ > for downloading the Windows version of the accelerator.

Running qemu usng DSL can be very close to real time using Kqemu.

desNotes