-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/08 01:34, Rich Healey wrote: > Is there a way to tell kswapd that i wan't a particular process to get > shoved into swap? > > I run a torrent client 24/7 (in many ways it would just be easier to > mirror a whole bunch of distro iso's, but oh well).. > > Anyway, it tends to consume between 30 and 50% of my system's physical > memory, which wouldn't matter, except that it tends to push firefoxen > into swap, while nearly always staying in memory itself. > > I can probably alter the torrent clients settings a bit to reign it in, > but honestly, the disk with my swap partition is pretty quick, and i > would think totally adequate to let it download/upload files from. > > Is there some way of forcing this?
If your torrent client is staying in memory, but FF is being pushed out, that means that -- since the swapper keeps what is needed *now* and swaps what isn't needed -- that the torrent client is continually doing more work than FF. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIEJSDS9HxQb37XmcRAgiwAKCqgM0XphdXLG25qS44xuPOI1DAewCg1NHp uZhvvOk7MyIn7/fuAeIit30= =RnIa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
