I had found how to prioritise a swap and implemented that by changing the fstab entry to
Code:
/media/usb/swapfile swap swap pri=0 0 0
It is now using the USB swap at boot but still creating the MMC swap and adding that to the swap pool. It's too early to tell if the box is performing any better.
Code:
root@zgemmah7:~# cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/mmcblk0p7 partition 262140 0 -1
/media/usb/swapfile file 1048572 28 0
root@zgemmah7:~# free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 1027736 915388 33492 204 78856 79556
Swap: 1310712 28 1310684
root@zgemmah7:~#
using new swapmanager, I have attached the log. The GUI is still showing the same as previously