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sakaki- / gentoo-on-rpi-64bit

Bootable 64-bit Gentoo image for the Raspberry Pi4B, 3B & 3B+, with Linux 5.4, OpenRC, Xfce4, VC4/V3D, camera and h/w codec support, weekly-autobuild binhost
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(not an error) Is the advice on placing a swap on another bus still relevant? #94

Closed yrabbit closed 4 years ago

yrabbit commented 4 years ago

Do I understand correctly that the subsystem responsible for allocating memory in the swap itself uses dynamically allocated memory and therefore all my attempts to put a swap on a USB flash fail under load?

usb-swap

sakaki- commented 4 years ago

@yrabbit, apologies for not responding to you earlier on this, been busy on the forthcoming 1.5.0 release.

Interesting point! I must say I haven't seen that particular error come up, and I run a few build servers (which at times hit the swap pretty hard) using the dual-swap setup.

If you haven't already, why not post this question on the RPi forums? I'd be interested myself to see what responses the RPF/RPT engineers come back with.

Best, sakaki

yrabbit commented 4 years ago

I remembered what I did (compiled FreeCAD), I will try to repeat this in the near future in order to get the latest logs.