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Volker Armin Hemmann writes: |
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> On Thursday 26 May 2011 00:40:21 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> > Paul Hartman writes: |
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> > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> |
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> > > wrote: |
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> > Maybe I should have bought 4G instead of 2G, so I'd have 10G, not 8G. |
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> > I'm not sure if this is recommended these days, to have one memory bank |
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> > with 4G and 3 others with 2G each. |
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> It is very much not recommended nor wise. |
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> Sometimes it works great, sometimes it just works, sometimes it burns |
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> down your village, rapes your cattle and steals your dad. |
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Ookay. |
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> > It's growing: 1405m VIRT, 851m RES, 6m SHR. Strange, I did not actually |
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> > use the desktop after I wrote the mail you replied to, currently I'm |
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> > logged in from remote. |
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> and you know that those numbers are pretty much meaningless? |
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Are they? Well, apparently _something_ in kwin was using hundreds of |
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megabytes. When I was back at the PC, I had to wait three minutes until he |
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password dialog appeared so I could unlock the session. iotop showed the |
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kwin process swapping, and no other activity. |
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Now kwin is at 37M, which is much lower than I thought... whoops, I made a |
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mistake in my previous posting, I got the virtual memory column instead by |
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misusing awk. I also confused kwin with plasma-desktop, which had been |
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really high in the past. |
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> about swap: |
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> 8gb ram, 24gb swap here. Swap so huge because of historical reasons |
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> (started with one disk with 8gb, now there are three...). But not so |
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> bad, considering all those tempfs mounts that can shoved in there. |
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Yikes. I'd rather use the space for other stuff... no matter how large hard |
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drives are, mine tend to fill up so I am glad for every extra gigabyte I can |
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find. |
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> Of course I am scared about the shitstorm if that ever happens. |
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> I am using the standard scheduler, no fancy io-scheduling stuff, kernel |
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> 2.6.36.6 and can't complain. |
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I do, a lot. But it seems that the system performs okay now. |
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> Even after a week of uptime I only get 500mb swap. Some cruft still in |
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> memory for some i-dont-know-reasons shoved in the hellhole swap so it |
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> won't get in the way of the more important stuff. Like gwenview. Or vlc. |
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Yeah, that's how it should be. A little swap is okay. But in my case it felt |
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like important stuff was swapped out. |
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Wonko |
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