Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Jun 2004 10:18:17 -0400 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: why swap at all? |
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:38:41 +0200, FabF said: > > >>>Yes but: your wm is so often used/activated it will not get swaped out. >>>But if your mouse passes over mozilla and tries to focus it, then you will >>>feel the pain of a swapped-out x program. >>> >> >>Exactly ! >>Does autoregulated VM swap. patch could help here ? > > > Con's auto-adjusting swappiness patch did in fact help that quite a bit, > especially for the case of heavy file I/O causing process images to be swapped > out. I need to do some comparisons of that to Nick's MM work...
I haven't had a chance to try Con's stuff, the Nick patch is working VERY well for me, small memory and slow system, lots of memory pressure. Hopefully you can report a comparison.
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