Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Keys get stuck | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:21:43 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 09:02 -0300, Carlos R. Mafra wrote: > On Thu 13.Mar'08 at 12:28:13 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > >[...] > > Swap can definitely keep X off the cpu for extended periods, > >[...] > > So I would like to ask if swap letting X (and everything else > in my experience) out of the cpu for extended periods is > considered normal behaviour, in the sense that nobody is > trying to "fix" it (due to it being considered impossible > to fix)...?
No, it's not normal. I'd say the VM makes bad decisions if _moderate_ swapping behaves badly. Heavy swapping is another story. (I think Rik is addressing some VM issues as we speak, so hopefully it will improve soonish)
> Sorry for being off-topic, but I run a minimal Window Maker > desktop in a P4 3.0 GHz with 512 MB of RAM (around 140 MB > being used as per 'free'), and trying to load a 380 MB text > file in xjed editor makes my whole desktop quite unfair... > it takes tens of seconds to switch desktop, type things in > the terminal etc. > > When xjed finishes loading the text file, everything comes > back to "fair" again. > > Is there some law in the nature of computers which says > that when swapping everything else waits for swap to finish > its business? I hope not :-)
Me too. In the past, I tested swap heavily (and beat it into submission when it misbehaved for me), but haven't tested swap performance since becoming fairly ram-wealthy.
-Mike
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