From: Jan Knutar <jk-lkml@sci.fi>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: swap prefetching merge plans
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:47:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603231347.51219.jk-lkml@sci.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44225BBF.2040604@yahoo.com.au>
On Thursday 23 March 2006 10:26, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am just a user, but I would love to see this feature.
> >
> > After compiling stuff, I have usually some kb in swap (300kb, 360 kb), and
> > lots of free ram. But even this few kb make my KDE desktop extremly sluggish.
> > It feels, like every byte is fetched individually and always the wrong stuff
> > ends in swap.
> >
>
> I'm almost positive this wouldn't be the cause of your problems (even a
> slow disk could read all these blocks in, randomly, in under 2 seconds,
> assuming they're spread from one end of the platters to the other).
Maybe he meant 300 megabytes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-23 11:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-23 7:56 Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-03-23 8:26 ` swap " Nick Piggin
2006-03-23 11:47 ` Jan Knutar [this message]
2006-03-23 13:50 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-03-24 8:16 ` Helge Hafting
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-23 4:53 -mm " Andrew Morton
2006-03-23 7:04 ` swap prefetching " Con Kolivas
2006-03-23 11:19 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-03-23 13:58 ` Francesco Biscani
2006-03-23 15:37 ` James Rayner
2006-03-23 18:35 ` Mattia Dongili
2006-03-23 18:40 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-03-25 14:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-25 15:24 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-25 23:44 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-26 5:54 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-26 8:08 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-26 7:42 ` Mike Galbraith
2006-03-26 9:34 ` Con Kolivas
2006-03-26 9:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
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