[gentoo-user] Re: Strive for zero swap usage?

2016-10-09 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sun, 9 Oct 2016 06:25:20 -0700 schrieb Grant : > > Looking at the times, it looks a lot like you are having higher > > iowait only at around 2:00 and 4:20 which are pretty standard cron > > job times. These probably run niced or ioniced. It's normal that > > you are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strive for zero swap usage?

2016-10-09 Thread Grant
> Looking at the times, it looks a lot like you are having higher iowait > only at around 2:00 and 4:20 which are pretty standard cron job times. > These probably run niced or ioniced. It's normal that you are seeing > higher iowait for such processes. > > You may want to try setting your io

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strive for zero swap usage?

2016-10-08 Thread HÃ¥kon Alstadheim
Den 08. okt. 2016 21:27, skrev Kai Krakow: > > You may want to try setting your io scheduler to deadline (or even noop > if you are using a RAID controller with bbu and write cache). Since you > seem to prefer response times over throughput you should be using > deadline io scheduler anyways.

[gentoo-user] Re: Strive for zero swap usage?

2016-10-08 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Sat, 8 Oct 2016 05:09:46 -0700 schrieb Grant : > >> "Swapping excessively" is inherently a use-case-specific problem, > >> but it comes down to two questions: > >> > >> * Do you notice your system spending time in iowait swapping data > >> in while you're waiting on it? >