Re: memory usage

[Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>]

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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> I would say it should. Your problem might be caused by preemptive
> swapping out of "idle" processes, which can make sense on a server but
> can create severe latency problems on (desk|lap)top systems,

This is very interesting. In fact "free" does not indicate that I am really 
out of memory, so I was surprised by the frequency of swapping. This is 
typical output:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       3956344    3666976     289368          0      35592     800440
- -/+ buffers/cache:    2830944    1125400
Swap:      3145720    2434812     710908


> with such large applications. Have you already tried to set
> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness to zero?

No, will look into it, thanks!

Cheers,

Marcus
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