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List:       gentoo-desktop
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-desktop] performance issues
From:       keoki seu <keoki () imperfectly ! physics ! wm ! edu>
Date:       2004-08-10 20:54:32
Message-ID: 20040810205432.GA22034 () imperfectly ! physics ! wm ! edu
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:57:16PM -0500, Caleb Tennis wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 August 2004 01:03 pm, Arran Fraser wrote:
> > During that time my IDE-LED goes nuts.
> 
> Sounds like the kernel is swapping your applications.  I'm not sure what 
> version of kernel you're using, but if you're in the 2.6 series, upping to 
> the latest one may help out quite a bit.
Specifically, change the swappiness parameter offered in the 2.6 branch.
# echo '0' > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

higher number = more swapping, lower number = less swapping

see the post here:
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3000

keoki


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