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Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick writes: |
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>> On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: |
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>>> I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one, |
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>>> including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I |
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>>> finally have to actually do some work. |
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>> I recently experienced slowdowns and delays with KDE. It turned out I |
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>> had inadvertently disabled swap (I'd rearranged my partitions and not |
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>> updated fstab). As soon as I gave it some swap space the delays |
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>> disappeared. |
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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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> Wonko |
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Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related |
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to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower |
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than ram. |
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I have always wondered how to find this out myself. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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