On Saturday 21 Feb 2004 06:00, Javier Marcet wrote: > * Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040221 02:55]: > >> I have 1GB RAM and 2GB swap but when I'm using Pan on a large > >> newsgroup > >> like alt.binaries.dvd, all the RAM and three-quarters of swap get > >> used up and the desktop grinds to a halt. > > > >Sounds like a pan bug (probably that they do binary decode in RAM... > > ) > > Not really, vm.swappiness is set way too high in current 2.6 kernels. > I was so annoyed by the swap usage that began digging up how to > improve it. Without swap on my system it worked much better... until > it was really needed, that is. <snip> > It is included in gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.3-r1, I'm currently using it > (for the last ~18 hours already) and so far it is working rather > well, definitely worth a try if you're using 2.6.x
Thanks, my problem is somewhat alleviated with kernel-2.6.3-gentoo-r1. Peter -- ======================================================================== Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.0.50-r1. kernel-2.6.3-gentoo-r1. i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+. gcc(GCC): 3.3.2. KDE: 3.2.0. Qt: 3.3.0. ======================================================================== -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
