reassign 581488 desktop-base thanks On Mittwoch, 12. Mai 2010, Marcus Better wrote: > Package: general > Severity: wishlist > > I have been plagued by long delays with an unresponsive laptop, > waiting for it to swap in Eclipse for several minutes at a time, > several times per day. This is a Thinkpad T61 with 4 GB of RAM, > squeeze/sid, X.org, KDE and Eclipse. (4 GB ought to be enough for > everyone, right?) > > Recently I got the advice [1] to set vm.swappiness to 0, rather than > the default 60. This improved things dramatically. Apparently Eclipse > is no longer being swapped out preemptively all the time. The > difference in perceived responsiveness is spectacular. > > Shouldn't we provide a lower swappiness by default for desktop > installs, at least those with a fair amount of RAM? This could improve > the user experience on most modern desktop systems. Most users will > probably never find out to tune this on their own. Ubuntu recommends a > value of 10 for desktop systems [2, 3] (but ship with the default > value). > > I realise that I don't have any solid evidence that this is a good > move, maybe others can fill in with their experience. The goal here is > to improve desktop responsiveness when multi-tasking, especially on > machines with reasonably large RAM and one or more large applications. > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2010/05/msg00313.html > [2] <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq#What is swappiness and how > do I change it?> [3] http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5481/ > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.33.2-melech (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) > Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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