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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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> > I can't remember the last time my swap was used at all. I have 12G of |
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> > RAM, but in my prior system with 8G it was the same. Only in a rare |
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> > case when some program had run-away memory usage/memory leak did I |
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> > ever get to swap usage... I'm using vanilla kernel 2.6.39 with no |
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> > patches, no BFS. And I use proprietary nvidia-drivers. I normally |
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> > don't have so many programs running at once, but it happens sometimes. |
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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 down |
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your village, rapes your cattle and steals your dad. |
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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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about swap: |
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8gb ram, 24gb swap here. Swap so huge because of historical reasons (started |
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with one disk with 8gb, now there are three...). But not so bad, considering |
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all those tempfs mounts that can shoved in there. |
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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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Even after a week of uptime I only get 500mb swap. Some cruft still in memory |
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for some i-dont-know-reasons shoved in the hellhole swap so it won't get in |
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the way of the more important stuff. Like gwenview. Or vlc. |