This is another quite open question that I probably could research
myself, if I had the time.
As far as I understand, it is quite recent that SD cards are fast and
large enough to be able to carry and run an entire Debian instance.
If this is the case, maybe there is only theory available regarding
whether you can make a computer "run faster" on a 64GB SD card than on a
32GB SD card when cards are otherwise identical.
I don't really know how swap works on a standard computer, even less how
it works when the whole computer runs from/on a SD card.
Swap is supposed to be make your computer pretend that you have more RAM
than it actually has, but if the whole computer is running from/on RAM
(or is it?), then what does swap mean?
On Teres-I with redpill RC2 (now there is a RC3 that I have not yet
installed) an unfortunate website with pop up commercials (like dn.se)
can eat all performance there is and freeze the mouse for hours. I would
guess that could have been fixed on a normal computer with "more RAM",
i.e., "more swap"? But is the same true for e.g. Teres-I?
Second question is if it is meaningful to buy a "super duper blazing
fast" SD card for the task to run a whole Debian system?
There is a very expensive 64GB SD card from SanDisk that is called
Extreme Pro that costs twice as much as same size Extreme Plus. Specs
say it is "super duper blazing fast" for video in "Ultra HD 4K", but
would Pro also be faster than Plus for the task of running Thunderbird
and Firefox at the same time?
Best regards.
//Erik
- System on a chip - performance relative size and setup (... Erik Josefsson
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