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120810 Michael Mol wrote: |
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> On Aug 10, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Florian Philipp <lists@×××××××××××.net>wrote: |
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>> The latest thing of any significance I can think of |
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>> is the removal of lumpy reclaim in 3.4 |
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>> which has something to do with reducing memory fragmentation |
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>> in systems under memory stress. LWN has a subscriber-only article |
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>> about the change causing performance regressions. |
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>> I doubt it could cause an improvement in this particular situation. |
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On my system, swapping was eliminated after installing Kernel 3.4.0 . |
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> I honestly think anyone having difficulties with swap should check out |
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> the vm.swappiness sysctl before looking anywhere else. |
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> Setting it to 0 is much like removing swap, |
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> except you still have the swap space if you actually need it. |
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> On my work laptop, it looks like it defaults to a value of 60. |
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For some years, I have set swappiness at 10 . |
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My best guess after the various comments (thanks) |
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is that it resulted from the code clean-up in Libre Office |
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& that my memory was faulty in believing it had also happened with Firefox. |
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It shouldn't have happened previously, as I have 4 GB RAM |
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& lots of temporary disk space for Portage to use. |
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