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How to setup a SWAP file using a USB stick

bogdanm

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How to setup a SWAP file using a USB stick

As follows :-

1} Press Blue button @STB Remote Control and then again press the Blue button, the info page will show you {1}
1.JPG
2} Then Select Swap File Settings, then the page will show you this {2}
2.JPG
3} Now press the (green) Create button, after you press the green button you see a message asking where to create the swap file. See picture {3}
3.JPG
4} The prefered place to create a swap file is the USB stick, so select USB and you will see {4}
4.JPG
5} Now you can select what size you file you want, I prefered 32mb {5}
4a.JPG
6} Now you are back at page 2 and you see this {5}
5.JPG
7} Now you must active swap [Press Red button] after you select Activate you will see {6}
6.JPG
Now the swap has been created on your USB stick and you have 32mb of space to avaliable to be used by the image.

Thank you EVO and Artorius in help with translation

Rgds
 
Is there a speed difference by enabling swap file? Or is it just a temporary storage in case flash memory isn't enough?
 
Hi Guys

I created swap file of 128 MB on USB. Now, I want to delete the 128 MB swap file and re-create a smaller size swap file say 32 or 64 MB. How do I delete the existing file and re-create a new one.

Tks

PS: I got the answer - just delete and re-create. I was not able to do it with MyMetric skin. But with the default skin, I did it.

Tks
 
can you help me I am running BH 2.1.4 image in meo-boot (2.1.4zip) set up swap file 512MB active /auto start enabled
blue button then yellow (sys info) ram in use 97% and increasing swap in use 0%
why is it not recognizing the swap file
box keeps crashing
tried both swap in usb and HDD tried both lower MBs swap file sizes and higher MB sizes to no avail
should i use TS panel swap instead don't want to use third party plugins
 
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