Am 08.08.2012 11:33, schrieb Philip Webb: > 120808 Florian Philipp wrote: >> 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. >> 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. > > Sorry, perhaps I didn't make it clear enough: > I'm refering to the process of compiling the pkgs via Portage, > not to using them after they have been installed. > Both packages used noticeably less memory during the compile stage > on the latest occasion in contrast to the previous Emerges. >
No, you made yourself clear. I didn't. I meant the compiling, too.
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