Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: why swap at all? | From | FabF <> | Date | Tue, 01 Jun 2004 20:36:23 +0200 |
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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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