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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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