Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:41:19 +0900 | From | Clemens Schwaighofer <> | Subject | Re: Autotune swappiness01 |
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Tim Connors wrote: | Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp> said on Tue, 27 Jul 2004 10:17:16 +0900:
| Depends on what you do. Do you compile kernels regularly? In | particular, do you have to wait for them, or do you just let them sit | in the background, and come back to them when you rememeber, since | you've been busy doing real work for the past 5 hours? If you wait, | then I guess you want high swapiness.
well this is a work box. I do coding, yes, but this is perl, php, etc, mostly (99%) on remote machines. The big apps running here is mozilla, openoffice, korganzier (yes I do the KDE bloat) and _a_ _lot_ of konsole ~ (kde terminals).
I want responsivness. I don't want to wait 10s to switch between virtual desktops. I compile a kernel once in a while. Very rare actually, because this is a work box and I don't reboot all the time (can't & don't want). The last kernel change was 64d ago.
| For the rest of us who don't have to regularly read in hundreds of | megs of disk, and don't need to use that hundreds of megs of disk over | and over and over again (As far as I can see, this is just about | everyone who's not a kernel developer or some big app developer[1]), I | guess we get by just fine having smaller swapiness.
well the only thing that needs disk over and over again is this _crappy_ gentoo because it needs to compile everything. I really hate myself for using it, because _this_ probably screws up _all_ the page cache, etc.
| [1] Maybe kde is bloated enough that you if want to start the equiv of | an xterm all the time, maybe caching helps a lot there, but I make a | point of using lean apps[2].
well, to be honest, I doubt it is so bloated anymore. I think gnome is the better bloat of those two.
| [2] Sad when you consider xemacs lean, isn't it? ;)
well, if you call xemacs (the editor without an OS) lean ... *hmm* but I am a vim man after all ;)
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