Ivan Marin wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm running Sid (kernel 2.6.30) on a Core i7 with 4G of memory. Everything > runs smoothly until some programs hit the VM (like using eclipse, amarok, > iceweasel and azureus at the same time). Even if one of the memory hoggers > is killed, or all of them, if the VM was hit and some swap was made, the > system performance starts do degrade, being slower and slower, and with > lots of I/O, even if the program was not in the swap or is closed and > opened again. I think that maybe this is related to the "swapiness" of the > system, but also don't know how to configure that, and disabling the swap > doesn't seems a very bright idea to me. I heard that kernel 2.6.31 has a > much better performance regarding memory control. Any thoughts? > > Thank you. > > Ivan
Not sure but it could be related to larger files. I have the same observation, then I investigated and read that linux is loading files into memory (i.e. when copying then), so you can test following. Copy a large file i.e. 2GB and remove it afterwords (you can use i.e. dd) Delete the file and have a look to the memory with top or free. For me it shows 2GB mem free. I'm thinking that things are actually not swapped correctly but no prove until now. regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
