Re: Virtual Memory and long use
Ivan Marin wrote:
Hello all,
I'm running Sid (kernel 2.6.30) on a Core i7 with 4G of memory.
Everything runs smoothly until some programs hit the VM (like using
eclipse, amarok, iceweasel and azureus at the same time). Even if one
of the memory hoggers is killed, or all of them, if the VM was hit and
some swap was made, the system performance starts do degrade, being
slower and slower, and with lots of I/O, even if the program was not
in the swap or is closed and opened again. I think that maybe this is
related to the "swapiness" of the system, but also don't know how to
configure that, and disabling the swap doesn't seems a very bright
idea to me. I heard that kernel 2.6.31 has a much better performance
regarding memory control. Any thoughts?
Thank you.
Ivan
Given your hardware, try to compile a 2.6.31 kernel and check out the
results.
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