Re: why swap at all?

[Bill Davidsen]

Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 07:38:41 +0200, FabF said:
>
>
> > > Yes but: your wm is so  often used/activated it will not get swaped  out. 
> > > But if your mouse passes over mozilla and tries to focus it, then you will
> > > feel the pain of a swapped-out x program.
> >
> > Exactly !
> > Does autoregulated VM swap. patch could help here ?
>
>
> Con's auto-adjusting swappiness patch did in fact help that quite a bit,
> especially for the case of heavy file I/O causing process images to be swapped
> out.  I need to do some comparisons of that to Nick's MM work...

I haven't had a chance to try Con's stuff, the Nick patch is working 
VERY well for me, small memory and slow system, lots of memory pressure. 
Hopefully you can report a comparison.

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   -bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
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 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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