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@spjonez: I asked the OpenELEC guys about supporting swap on the R-Pi and it's now included in master (thanks @sraue), so this build (and all future builds) has official swap support, although It's not enabled by default - you need to:

Code:

cp /etc/swap.conf /storage/.config/swap.conf

then enable swap by setting

Code:

SWAP_ENABLED="yes"

and reboot. This will give you a 128MB swap file. There will be a short delay on the first boot while the swap file is created.

sorry for the stupid question, but what is the swap good for? I know the RPi has limited RAM but at least the Model B with 512MB seemed to be sufficient for me as there was always enough space left.
Isn't swap memory on the SD Card also pretty slow in comparison to the dedicated RAM?