Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263802AbUFBR53 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:57:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263788AbUFBRy1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:54:27 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:61825 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263776AbUFBRw5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:52:57 -0400 Message-Id: <200406021752.i52Hqtks024484@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Bernd Eckenfels Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why swap at all? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jun 2004 01:17:06 +0200." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1354917434P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:52:55 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1526 Lines: 40 --==_Exmh_1354917434P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 01:17:06 +0200, Bernd Eckenfels said: > Yes but: your wm is so often used/activated it will not get swaped out. > But if your mouse passes over mozilla and tries to focus it, then you will > feel the pain of a swapped-out x program. Yes, I'm quite familiar with what a swapped-out mozilla does to my laptop ;) The point I was making (apparently poorly) was that if mozilla is swapping in, *that window* is hosed, but if the WM or the X server is swapping in, *everything* is hosed. And I *have* had times when I've left for an extended period while Mozilla is downloading a Knoppix .iso or similar beastly large thing, and it managed to keep Mozilla pages hot because it was busy doing a download, and the WM pages got swapped out because the WM wasn't actually doing anything... Yes, it's a rare state of affairs, but it *has* happened... --==_Exmh_1354917434P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFAvhP3cC3lWbTT17ARAn3MAJ4ybvDbILuVbILyueNoKXP9rYvLQwCfbJUG uCccIIjDCQdkHZtCEVA1etU= =C1vk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1354917434P-- - 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/