On 09/19/2017 08:18 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Because my system is swapping actively. As I go from workspace to workspace I see the application that I have there (say, firefox, libreoffice) wake up, and sometimes this takes minutes.
ssd will help. Is there any way to optimize what you have running to play better in the RAM you have? Unload apps, of course.
Firefox is huge. So is Thunderbird. Then I also use LibreOffice, also large.
Interestingly, "clamd" is a very large app in RAM, and it does not swap out. Half a gigabyte. I have pending to work out how to load it on demand, and unload manually or automatically when not posting.
This moment I'm using vmware player, takes 2 gigs (for Windows 10).
Well, you must be doing something crazy with the number of apps you have open, because I have 12 apps open (15 tabs in FF), Tbird with 1000's of message in 1/2 dozen accounts, 3 sessions of Kate with over 100 files open, 10 tabs in konsole, 2 instances of kwrite, 1 gtkwrite, 2 kpdf, basket notepads, keepassx and I don't even crack 4G of active RAM, $ free -tm total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 7932 5618 2314 28 454 3230 -/+ buffers/cache: 1932 6000 Swap: 2071 0 2071 Total: 10004 5618 4386 ## RAM used less buffers/cache $ echo $((5618-1932)) 3686 $ grep 'Active:' /proc/meminfo Active: 3961272 kB I also have Win7 installed as a virtualbox guest, locally and virtualized on my server. I don't get slow desktop swaps regardless. Though I do prefer running win7 on the server started --headless and accessed via rdesktop (which over wireless lan is fine from laptop is fine). I run libre writer and calc without issue. It seems like your desktop is doing something screwy on a per-desktop cache basis that is causing unneeded paging to swap of the inactive desktop apps resulting in very ssslllloooowww desktop switching. I am bit reluctant to ask which desktop? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.