120810 Michael Mol wrote: > On Aug 10, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net>wrote: >> The latest thing of any significance I can think of >> is the removal of lumpy reclaim in 3.4 >> which has something to do with reducing memory fragmentation >> in systems under memory stress. LWN has a subscriber-only article >> about the change causing performance regressions. >> I doubt it could cause an improvement in this particular situation.
On my system, swapping was eliminated after installing Kernel 3.4.0 . > I honestly think anyone having difficulties with swap should check out > the vm.swappiness sysctl before looking anywhere else. > Setting it to 0 is much like removing swap, > except you still have the swap space if you actually need it. > On my work laptop, it looks like it defaults to a value of 60. For some years, I have set swappiness at 10 . My best guess after the various comments (thanks) is that it resulted from the code clean-up in Libre Office & that my memory was faulty in believing it had also happened with Firefox. It shouldn't have happened previously, as I have 4 GB RAM & lots of temporary disk space for Portage to use. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
