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Am 08.08.2012 11:33, schrieb Philip Webb: |
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> 120808 Florian Philipp wrote: |
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>> Am 07.08.2012 07:02, schrieb Philip Webb: |
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>>> Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office & Firefox this week, |
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>>> neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); |
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>>> OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap; |
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>>> the total time & the HDD usage remained almost the same. |
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>>> In between, I updated the Kernel 3.0.0 -> 3.4.0 , |
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>>> but made no other changes in config files etc. |
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>> Did Firefox ever actually need to swap? Here it does a fair share |
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>> of disk I/O (some python script?) but never actually needs lots of memory. |
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>> With Libre Office, it could be their recent code cleaning effort. |
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>> They removed large amounts of cruft. |
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> Sorry, perhaps I didn't make it clear enough: |
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> I'm refering to the process of compiling the pkgs via Portage, |
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> not to using them after they have been installed. |
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> Both packages used noticeably less memory during the compile stage |
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> on the latest occasion in contrast to the previous Emerges. |
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No, you made yourself clear. I didn't. I meant the compiling, too. |