[Q] Does android use swap automatically?

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As the title says: Does android automatically use the swap partition on my SD card? If not, how do I make it so? At the moment I am on MIUI, but I would change ROM to see the swap in action. Also MIUI isn't seeing the A2SD partition on my SD card either. How do I enable this? I think there is a script or something I need to run isn't there? Both of these partitions were created by CWM, A2SD is 1GB, Swap is 128MB.

Originally Posted by Poulsen8r

Does android automatically use the swap partition on my SD card?

As far as I know Android does not use swap. There is an app called swapper which enables a swap-file.

Android terminates inactive apps when the available memory is low. With the 512MBytes of the U8800 you should be good to go: As long as you do not have games running in the background, the memory is just enough.

By the way the sd-card is very slow and therefore would slow things down. At least that is my guess.

the ram is actually 360mb cause the rest is used by the gpu.

Originally Posted by XphX

As far as I know Android does not use swap. There is an app called swapper which enables a swap-file.

Android terminates inactive apps when the available memory is low. With the 512MBytes of the U8800 you should be good to go: As long as you do not have games running in the background, the memory is just enough.

By the way the sd-card is very slow and therefore would slow things down. At least that is my guess.

The stock kernel does not support SWAP. A custom kernel is needed.