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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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> Does anyone have thoughts re the effect of kernel versions on swapping ? |
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Did Firefox ever actually need to swap? Here it does a fair share of |
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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. They |
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removed large amounts of cruft. |
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