Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> writes:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Lech Szychowski wrote:
>
> > > > I'm using X all the time, so I really can't tell what it would be
> > > > like without X. My experience is swap does not start growing until
> > > > I start to use networking (either NFS or Arkeia) heavily.
> > >
> > > can you try to do some of your networking stuff while not running X,
> > > and see if your system already start swaping ?
> >
> > I'll try, but what worries me most is the apparent strangeness
> > in VM manager behavior: cached memory not shrinking and swap
> > growing at the same time...
>
> Question is, have any of you actually noticed a performance
> hit because of this or are you just seeing different numbers
> than what you're used to and automatically assuming that it
> must be wrong?
>
> If there is no performance hit, I don't see what would be wrong
> by using a few MB of swap...
>
There is a big performance hit...
so big that it could take from 10 to 20 second to open a terminal...
Execution of whatever file on disk is extremely slow, and it seem
that data are cached but overwritten really little time after being so.
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