Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263084AbUCMMfQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:35:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263085AbUCMMfQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:35:16 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:51083 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263084AbUCMMfL (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Mar 2004 07:35:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 22:46:22 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Matthias Urlichs Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.4-rc2-mm1: vm-split-active-lists Message-ID: <20040312214621.GE1236@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <404FACF4.3030601@cyberone.com.au> <200403111825.22674@WOLK> <40517E47.3010909@cyberone.com.au> <20040312012703.69f2bb9b.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 798 Lines: 23 Hi! > > That effect is to cause the whole world to be swapped out when people > > return to their machines in the morning. > > The correct solution to this problem is "suspend-to-disk" -- > if the machine isn't doing anything anyway, TURN IT OFF. Try it. With current design, machine swaps *a lot* after resume. Suspend-to-ram is probably better. But if you don't run your updatedb overnight, you are going to run it while you are logged in, and that is going to suck. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/