From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:01:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703141801.41515.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070314141959.GJ839@randombit.net>
On Mittwoch, 14. März 2007, Jack Lloyd wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:32:45PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > 50mb in swap - and everything is slow. So slow as if every bit is fetched
> > by a mule caravan. And it does not matter if it is a swap partition or a
> > swap file. It is slow.
> >
> > But there is an easy way to get the box back to normal speed: swapoff -a
> > && swapon -a ...
>
> Perhaps better to tweak the VM so it is not as swap-happy using
> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/1044
swappiness does not help, if swap is really needed (like when compiling
kdepim). The 'stupid' thing is, as soon as swap is used, it stays that way,
no matter how many hundred mb of ram are free.
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-13 9:09 [gentoo-amd64] Is swap need when there is 4g of ram? P.V.Anthony
2007-03-13 9:56 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-13 12:46 ` Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
2007-03-13 13:39 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-13 14:28 ` Joaquim Quinteiro Uchoa
2007-03-13 14:35 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-14 23:00 ` Paul de Vrieze
2007-03-13 14:11 ` dustin
2007-03-13 14:32 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-13 20:24 ` Richard Freeman
2007-03-14 14:19 ` Jack Lloyd
2007-03-14 17:01 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin [this message]
2007-03-14 17:26 ` Bernhard Auzinger
2007-03-14 19:03 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2007-03-14 21:21 ` Bernhard Auzinger
2007-03-15 10:00 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2007-03-13 14:30 ` Duncan
2007-03-18 3:42 ` P.V.Anthony
2007-03-13 18:04 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Peter Humphrey
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