On 2010-05-25, Aaron Toponce <aaron.topo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/12/2010 1:22 PM, Marcus Better wrote: >> Recently I got the advice [1] to set vm.swappiness to 0, rather than >> the default 60. This improved things dramatically. Apparently Eclipse >> is no longer being swapped out preemptively all the time. The >> difference in perceived responsiveness is spectacular. > You might also be interested in: > > # sync; cat 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > > This is a nondestructive operation that will drop your clean caches, > clear up unused inodes, and free up available RAM. Usually, after > running my desktop for a few hours, depending on the applications I'm > running as well, this will free up about 1/2 of my installed RAM.
Why would I want to drop my caches? In fact I even use Tux on Ice for hibernation so that I can keep my buffer cache, otherwise it takes ages for the buffer cache to be loaded in after restore... Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/slrnhvojpr.8ec.tr...@kelgar.0x539.de
