On Monday 27 October 2008 09:59:41 am Dan Goodman wrote:
... I have observed apparent "frozen state" on occasion, as well, most typically when Kerry Beagle runs in the background.
Besides finding a way to set such processes (or the ones listed by the originator of the thread) to a lower priority, I have found some apparent partial relief (system appears slow, not frozen) by experimenting with the swappiness parameter. .... It is a subject that has been open to debate by members of the Linux community with more experience than I have in such matters. Some believe that the default is right, some believe all you can get is better, and some believe that the least amount necessary gives the best performance. Even some kernel developer types seem to not be in full agreement. ...
What is the optimal value will depend on hardware configuration. With single hard disk it is good to have some swap, just in case, but tendency to swap should be as low as possible. There is a single head that is serving swap and other areas of hard disk. Some other combination will be better with different values. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org