On Mon, May 14, 2012 1:07 pm, Sergey \"Shnatsel\" Davidoff wrote:
> No swap at all sounds like overreaction. You'd better decrease swappiness > and swap to zram if really needed. Swapping to zram has no noticeable > overhead on my machine, and it allows to fit 3+ Gb of data into my 2Gb RAM > if I need it, and only after that falls back to disk swap. Disk swap is > used only for hibernation nowadays; swapping executable code to disk > commonly referred to as "swapping death". I tried zram. It is better than swap for some things. It certainly gives a nicer user experience. However, it also shrinks my ram space. Any audio app that ends up in zram gives me a dropout. So I can actually run fewer audio apps at the same time, few synths, fewer tracks, fewer effects... for the same ram size. To be fair, I did run my test with swappiness left to the stock setting (60 I think) so I will also do some more testing with a lower value. Ram upgrades are not costly... a bit more for a netbook or laptop. but still a good first step. Or, just be happy with what can be done with what I have. I'm still not sure swap (of any kind) is a good deal for audio. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
