On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 04:30, FabF wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 19:59, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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...
>
> It helps inactive applications to re-ermerge smoothly, heavy I/O and
> global tuning.I've got 20 swapping delta from start to high usage.
> That patch rock'n'roll my box until updatedb makes sw climbs up to 80
> and freezes my box :(

Try this version instead which biases it downwards.

Con