Hi,
On Monday 04 April 2005 17:24, Christoph Gysin wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > How do I get my performance back? Easy: swapoff -a && swapon -a and
> > bingo, KDE is lighting fast again.
>
> What about not using swap at all? With 1 gig RAM on your desktop machine,
> are you ever going to fill up your RAM entirely? If swapping on linux
> sucks, disable it.
>
> Of course this is not recommended on a production server ;-)
>
> Christoph

because when I compile HUGEAPP I sometimes need some swap. I also experimented 
a little bit with swsusp (without much success), and I think it is better to 
have a slowdown, than the oom-killer killing the wrong app ...

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