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Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Martin Josefsson wrote:
> > I've been trying to get my machine to swap but that seems hard with this
> > new patch :) I have 0kB of swap used after 8h uptime, and I have been
> > compiling, moving files between partitions and running md5sum on files
> > (that was a big problem before, everything ended up on the active list and
> > the swapping started and brought my machine down to a crawl)
>
> No preemptive page-outs?
>
> 0kB swap means if you suddenly need a lot of memory, inactive
> application pages have to be written to disk first. There are always
> inactive application pages.
>
> Maybe the stats are inaccurate.
Or it just means he hasn't tried compiling mozilla.. which crashes my box
every time ...not sure if it's the VM patch to the pre-test8 kernel i'm using
or if it's the patch along with the A0 (low latency) patch i'm also using.
Also, where are the VM patches being held, i need to get a newer one..this one
is unstable.
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