Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263795AbUFBSEP (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:04:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263788AbUFBSBj (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 14:01:39 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:55005 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263795AbUFBR7D (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Jun 2004 13:59:03 -0400 Message-Id: <200406021759.i52Hx00N022255@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: FabF Cc: Bernd Eckenfels , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: why swap at all? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:38:41 +0200." <1086154721.2275.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <1086154721.2275.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1356624104P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:59:00 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1166 Lines: 34 --==_Exmh_1356624104P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:38:41 +0200, FabF 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. > > > Exactly ! > Does autoregulated VM swap. patch could help here ? Con's auto-adjusting swappiness patch did in fact help that quite a bit, especially for the case of heavy file I/O causing process images to be swapped out. I need to do some comparisons of that to Nick's MM work... --==_Exmh_1356624104P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFAvhVkcC3lWbTT17ARAqWZAJ0Sgzjs5eI+DL2G+1ElpUDteEaSSACfdKqY vC9QfWNp7tb0COBUva4b8E8= =xbt4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1356624104P-- - 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/