On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 19:16 +0100, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 03:41:10PM -0200, Emiliano Pastorino wrote:
> > Does anyone come out with a possible test? > Compilation in general (e.g. Linux kernel or sugar-jhbuild) seems to be > quite stressful to SD cards and often consumes a lot of memory, so might > be a good benchmark. I don't think it's terribly useful to test memory consuming non-interactive tasks. The important factor with things like compilation is that it gets the job done, speed is preferale but not necessary. However Delays of the sort that can double the time of a build operation could quite possibly render a user interface totally unusable. The easiest way to test swap performance on working data and a user interface I would guess would be to run Firefox up to 300 meg. Short of running evolution that's the best way to frivolously eat up your ram. Then just try doing some things. I run a swap on my XO, The speed difference while actively swapping compared to running totally in ram is quite significant. I'd class it as barely usable. What it does give you is the ability to not crash when you run out of ram, and to do the memory intensive non-interactive tasks mentioned above. I haven't traced it all through but I imagine there is some benefit to swapping out parts of programs that used memory at boot time and are now largely idle. Those items won't swap back in effectively giving you a little more ram. Not really enough to have a huge impact though. What I have found is that the XO has more than enough ram to run all the lightweight programs it wants, and not early enough to run the behemoths. There isn't a lot of middle ground. _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel