Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:47:51 +0200 | From | Jan Knutar <> | Subject | Re: swap prefetching merge plans |
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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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