[dundee] Aggresive Swapping......why?

[Digit (SG)]

i havnt so much had that problem per se, but i see what your getting at....
and surely there's means already available to us to manage ram in a more
user-customised fashion... like setting individual app's ram useage and so
on.

is the swapping to disk to free ram a now defunct philosophy from back in
the days of precious small ram and large swap disk space?   these days, many
people's ram far exceeds what they would use for their swap partition.

i wonder what gui apps have already been made for such ram management for us
stubborn ever-noobs who are slow learners when it comes to text commands.

On 26/01/2008, Lee Hughes <toxicnaan at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I've been trying to track down this problem, I though I'd ask here to see
> if any else notices it.
>
> I've got a lot ram in my system, however if I say stop using my browser
> for a min, and got do some other work, I find linux pages the browser to
> disk. This is annoying as I have to wait for it to be paged back into main
> memory. I've checked that I'm not using more ram that I have, but linux will
> aggressively page out applications even if the system have lots of spare
> memory , I assume this is reallocated to the disk cache.
>
> This seems to highlight the problem..
>
>
> http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/04/30/1238250.shtml?tid=106&tid=185
>
> currently my /proc/sys/vm/swappiness is set to 60.
>
> This is a strange default for a desktop operating system, in a system
> that's has ample ram.
>
> I'm going to try
>
> "echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness"
>
> and see if I get better results..
>
> Anyone else have this kind of problem  , I'd like to hear from you.
>
>
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