Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:33:30 +0100 | From | Thomas Kuther <> | Subject | Re: [ck] swap prefetching merge plans |
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On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:01:53 +0100 jos poortvliet <jos@mijnkamer.nl> wrote:
> Op donderdag 23 maart 2006 08:04, schreef Con Kolivas: > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:53 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > A look at the -mm lineup for 2.6.17: > > > > > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch > > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching-fix.patch > > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching-tweaks.patch > > > > > > Still don't have a compelling argument for this, IMO. > > well, the reason i use it is my computer is much more reactive in the > morning. linux uses to get very slow after a night of not-doing-much > except some 'sleep 5h && blabla' and cron stuff. in the morning it > takes a few HOURS to get up and running smoothly. with swap prefetch, > it actually feels faster compared to a fresh boot. now you can force > swap prefetch to start working, i use it now and then after some > heavy taskts which pulled everything to swap.
I absolutely second that! It was really annoying to have the box unresponsive in the morning - like waiting 3-4 minutes till sylpheed started up. This effect is almost totally gone with sp. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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