On Wednesday 25 May 2011 17:49:29 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 16:20 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Alex
> Schuster
>
> did opine thusly:
> > Oh, even weirder: The phone just rang, and five minutes later, swap has
> > gone to 860M. I was running rdiff-backup --list-increment-
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> On Thursday 26 May 2011 00:40:21 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > Paul Hartman writes:
> > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Alex Schuster
> > > wrote:
> > Maybe I should have bought 4G instead of 2G, so I'd have 10G, not 8G.
> > I'm not sure if this is recommended these
On Thursday 26 May 2011 00:40:21 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Paul Hartman writes:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Alex Schuster
> > wrote:
> >
> > I can't remember the last time my swap was used at all. I have 12G of
> > RAM, but in my prior system with 8G it was the same. Only in a rare
> > case
Am 25.05.2011 22:07, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> I'd be interested to hear any current use cases where swap delivers a
> provable
> benefit.
I need swap to build openoffice/libreoffice, my 8GB of RAM are not
sufficient all the time for the tmpfs of /var/tmp/portage when building
that.
But aside
Paul Hartman writes:
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> I can't remember the last time my swap was used at all. I have 12G of
> RAM, but in my prior system with 8G it was the same. Only in a rare
> case when some program had run-away memory usage/memory leak did I
> ever g
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> On Wednesday 25 May 2011 16:20:58 Alex Schuster wrote:
>
>> So, 27 minutes to put 885MB of swap back into RAM, with the double amount of
>> that being free RAM. I monitored with iotop, and the transfer rate started
>> around 60-100 K/s, later it went higher. But th
Alan McKinnon writes:
> That reminds me of how SSDs ought to be much faster than hard disks.
>
> But every time I use my Acer netbook (8G SSD) I curse and swear and commit
> random acts of violence - that first gen SSD controller is the worst possible
> thing to ever hit computers. I swear the
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:58 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Volker Armin
Hemmann did opine thusly:
> On Wednesday 25 May 2011 10:31:19 Paul Hartman wrote:
> > When I move the swap to a slow SD card instead (2MB/sec transfer
> > rate), even in that slow device, swapoff on the eMMC swap partiti
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:53 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Volker Armin
Hemmann did opine thusly:
> On Wednesday 25 May 2011 16:20:58 Alex Schuster wrote:
> > So, 27 minutes to put 885MB of swap back into RAM, with the double amount
> > of that being free RAM. I monitored with iotop, and th
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 May 2011 10:31:19 Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> When I move the swap to a slow SD card instead (2MB/sec transfer
>> rate), even in that slow device, swapoff on the eMMC swap partition
>> with ~500M in-use takes about 2 or 3
On Wednesday 25 May 2011 10:31:19 Paul Hartman wrote:
> When I move the swap to a slow SD card instead (2MB/sec transfer
> rate), even in that slow device, swapoff on the eMMC swap partition
> with ~500M in-use takes about 2 or 3 minutes at most with the data
> being swapped slowly into the SD car
On Wednesday 25 May 2011 16:20:58 Alex Schuster wrote:
> So, 27 minutes to put 885MB of swap back into RAM, with the double amount of
> that being free RAM. I monitored with iotop, and the transfer rate started
> around 60-100 K/s, later it went higher. But the average transfer rate is
> 550K/s.
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:20 on Wednesday 25 May 2011, Alex Schuster
did opine thusly:
> Oh, even weirder: The phone just rang, and five minutes later, swap has
> gone to 860M. I was running rdiff-backup --list-increment-sizes, maybe
> this uses much memory, and caches the stuff. Now th
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> I still wonder why my KDE4 system starts swapping so early. Until a week
> ago, I had 6G of RAM, but after a day of being logged in, I usually had some
> swap usage. Sometimes this goes up to 1.5G, this is when the system become
Hi there!
I still wonder why my KDE4 system starts swapping so early. Until a week
ago, I had 6G of RAM, but after a day of being logged in, I usually had some
swap usage. Sometimes this goes up to 1.5G, this is when the system becomes
way too slow and I log out.
Normally I don't mind having s
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