Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: why swap at all? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:59:00 -0400 |
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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... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |