Subject: Re: why swap at all?
From: FabF <fabian.frederick@skynet.be>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 19:59, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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...
It helps inactive applications to re-ermerge smoothly, heavy I/O and
global tuning.I've got 20 swapping delta from start to high usage.
That patch rock'n'roll my box until updatedb makes sw climbs up to 80
and freezes my box :(

FabF

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