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SubjectRe: why swap at all?
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On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 01:30, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <40BBB5F7.1010407@yahoo.com.au> you wrote:
> > Well, at the "expense" of paging out unused memory. I don't see
> > any swapin.
>
> On a slow system with small memory you quite often see swapped out
> applications like for example a kopete messenger windows. Once you click on
> it, it takes 10sec or more to get responsive again. Of course its a slow
> system, but gradually paging out and forgetting image pages has that effecct
> on faster systems too, makes the desktop sluggish.
I guess we have a design problem right here.We could add per-process
swappiness attribute.That swap thread becomes boring coz we're looking
globally what's going wrong locally.

FabF


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