Virtual Memory?

[Benjamindaines]

Is there anyway to get virtual memory on the iPhone so memory will dump to the flash storage (just like on a desktop OS) so apps don't crash while running in the background?

 

[egk69]

that would be cool!, so many storage space, apps, and so many things you can do, its hearth breaking that it runs so low on memory

 

[ppc750fx]

Hmm... I though the iPhone already had a working swap system in place... 'top' reports VM statistics (pageins, pageouts, etc.), so I'd be surprised if it wasn't already paging stuff to disk (i.e. flash). It's been a while since I last examined that aspect of the OS, so I very well could be wrong...