Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:47:51 +0200
From: Jan Knutar <jk-lkml@sci.fi>
Subject: Re: swap prefetching merge plans
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To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:26, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am just a user, but I would love to see this feature.
> > 
> > After compiling stuff, I have usually some kb in swap (300kb, 360 kb), and 
> > lots of free ram. But even this few kb make my KDE desktop extremly sluggish. 
> > It feels, like every byte is fetched individually and always the wrong stuff 
> > ends in swap.
> > 
> 
> I'm almost positive this wouldn't be the cause of your problems (even a
> slow disk could read all these blocks in, randomly, in under 2 seconds,
> assuming they're spread from one end of the platters to the other).

Maybe he meant 300 megabytes.

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