On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 06:59:45AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On 5/12/2010 1:22 PM, Marcus Better wrote: > > Recently I got the advice [1] to set vm.swappiness to 0, rather than > > the default 60. This improved things dramatically. Apparently Eclipse > > is no longer being swapped out preemptively all the time. The > > difference in perceived responsiveness is spectacular. > > You might also be interested in: > > # sync; cat 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
That'd be sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches Kind regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall <t...@debian.org> /) Rime on my window (\ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // Diamond-white roses of fire // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Beautiful hoar-frost (/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100525142625.gg24...@test5.acc.umu.se
