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Am Dienstag, 7. August 2012, 01:02:29 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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> Does anyone have thoughts re the effect of kernel versions on swapping ? |
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different kernel versions are more or less swap happy. Has always been the |
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case. |
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(I remember 2.2.10 - extreme swapping even with lots of ram... and 2.2.14 - no |
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swapping at all...) |
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