Swap file???

[herrMnnn]

I have a feeling I am about to highlight my ignorance, but.....

I have noswap in my extlinux.conf file.  Core is installed on an internal flash drive so I don't want any writes to it (apart from setup).  All data writes are to a usb stick which is effectively disposable.

Obviously I'm a fair way off needing swap, but why does free report swap?  I would expect it to report swap total=0?

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tc@box:~$ free
             total         used         free       shared      buffers
Mem:        237328        49228       188100            0         5016
-/+ buffers:              44212       193116
Swap:        59324            0        59324

[curaga]

It's zram, the compressed-swap-in-RAM. Use "cat /proc/swaps" to list them.

In the event of you needing swap, it would come into play and let you use over the 256mb, how much depends on the compressibility of the apps.

[herrMnnn]

Thanks curaga