Chris Laprise: > On 11/28/2016 05:44 PM, Patrick Schleizer wrote: >> Would setting >> >> /etc/sysctl.d/swaplow.conf >> vm.swappiness=0 >> >> in Qubes by default make sense? >> >> If not effective at all, why is it not required? >> >> Cheers, >> Patrick > > I think it would depend on the processing profile of your software. If > the system loads a lot of seldom-executed code and data, then default or > higher swappiness may be a benefit. But a leaner system would call for > lower values. > > Of course, there is a difference between dom0 and domU swapping... the > latter is much slower. > > What is a mystery to me is how the interplay between buffers and swap is > accounted for in Qubes memory management. When memory is full (according > to Xen) the way demand/supply plays out appears suboptimal. > > Chris >
I also forgot to add I had this in mind for domU only since memory assignment is dynamic anyhow. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/895358e4-6224-c388-8abb-835c1cb907fb%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
