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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:18:17 -0400
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: why swap at all? 
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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...

I haven't had a chance to try Con's stuff, the Nick patch is working 
VERY well for me, small memory and slow system, lots of memory pressure. 
Hopefully you can report a comparison.

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    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
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