On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Arun Venkataswamy <arun289 at gmail.com> wrote:
Arun pointed out the main reason for not including the Swap in
Embedded device. I will try to add some more info
? - From a design perspective, the design team will know how much RAM is
? required for a purpose built embedded device. This amount of RAM would have
? been provisioned physically.
? - For a general purpose device, we can safely assume permanent storage
? would typically be on board flash or memory cards. Any flash based
? permanent storage has a fixed `life` or write cycles after which it is
? likely to fail. Continuous use of swap file will reduce the effective life
? of the device.