On 5/12/2010 1:22 PM, Marcus Better wrote: > 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. You might also be interested in: # sync; cat 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches This is a nondestructive operation that will drop your clean caches, clear up unused inodes, and free up available RAM. Usually, after running my desktop for a few hours, depending on the applications I'm running as well, this will free up about 1/2 of my installed RAM. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O
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