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 ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list