Am 07.08.2012 07:02, schrieb Philip Webb: > Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office & Firefox this week, > neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); > OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap; > the total time & the HDD usage remained almost the same. > In between, I updated the Kernel 3.0.0 -> 3.4.0 , > but made no other changes in config files etc. > > Does anyone have thoughts re the effect of kernel versions on swapping ? >
Did Firefox ever actually need to swap? Here it does a fair share of disk I/O (some python script?) but never actually needs lots of memory. With Libre Office, it could be their recent code cleaning effort. They removed large amounts of cruft.
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