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SubjectRe: swap prefetching merge plans
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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