Am Dienstag, 7. August 2012, 01:02:29 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 ?
different kernel versions are more or less swap happy. Has always been the case. (I remember 2.2.10 - extreme swapping even with lots of ram... and 2.2.14 - no swapping at all...) -- #163933
