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SubjectRe: why swap at all?
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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...
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