-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/24/08 10:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -----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. >> > > An improvement to swapping: > > http://ck.wikia.com/wiki/SwapPrefetch
Is this in the mainline? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging I use "swap" in the generic sense, but really mean "page". Does Linux even *do* process swapping? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIELABS9HxQb37XmcRAnJXAKDDtiWHw4FL0wdP3lEBkJf3vjd7uQCeLpJy /JqcCIcrRedWNY4LAhCAEMQ= =g4fY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
