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> There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not |
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> be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can |
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> use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out |
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> yet what this is, it seems to happen when emerging things, maybe related |
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> to having 5 G tmpfs for portage, but when it happened the last time only |
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> 100 M were being used. |
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Yeah so it wont be swap related. This sounds more like the desktop |
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responsiveness issue discussed a while back. It might be worth |
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googling that (main issue was fixed in later kernels) |
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2637_video&num=1 |
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There's other things that may help, ie |
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CONFIG_HZ_1000=y |
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CONFIG_HZ=1000 |
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