PineTab Mobian

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Does anybody know if there is a big performance difference running Mobian from an external card compared to running it from the eMMC internal memory?

I used a "Sandisk V30 U3 " SD card and there was no noticeable performance difference, IMHO.

Interesting. Not sure what I am using, but probably not the latest specs. It is a Sandisk, but not the fastest it seems.

Mobian is nice to use on the Pinetab and almost makes it a "real" PC in mini format. However, mine has been struggling to keep up with some of the apps. It gets very sluggish at times and I have also encountered a number of "freezes", forcing me to reboot. I thought maybe those things would work better running Mobian from the internal memory?

You should really try to set up a 2 or 4Gb swapfile on emmc. It helps a lot with freezes.

I have now taken the plunge and installed on the eMMC. I have set up zram, but the swap file is still only 1Gb. How do I change the swap and how do I ensure that zram is running?