On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:59 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
These days, an interactive desktop user should almost never have more swap than physical memory -- even having swap=memory is too slow in many cases if the swap is being used frequently (> once/week).
I have 2 GB of real memory and 10 GB of swap on my interactive desktop machine but I'm probably not a normal user :) When the swap gets used, it slows the machine down, but it's usually better than having the program crash. And the machine is still usable. Much worse (i.e. unusable) is when there's heavy file access, usually NFS, which is why I'm interested in the cfq scheduling! The symptoms then are almost as bad as when our one and only DNS server has a senior moment (but it should be getting a younger sibling soon). Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org