Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:47:45 -0400 (EDT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: ~500 megs cached yet 2.6.5 goes into swap hell |
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On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
> OK, so it takes four seconds to swap mozilla back in, and you noticed it. > > Did you notice that those three kernel builds you just did ran in twenty > seconds less time because they had more cache available? Nope.
That's exactly why desktops should be optimised to give the best performance where the user notices it most...
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