Op donderdag 23 maart 2006 08:04, schreef Con Kolivas: > On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 03:53 pm, Andrew Morton wrote: > > A look at the -mm lineup for 2.6.17: > > > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching.patch > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching-fix.patch > > mm-implement-swap-prefetching-tweaks.patch > > > > Still don't have a compelling argument for this, IMO. well, the reason i use it is my computer is much more reactive in the morning. linux uses to get very slow after a night of not-doing-much except some 'sleep 5h && blabla' and cron stuff. in the morning it takes a few HOURS to get up and running smoothly. with swap prefetch, it actually feels faster compared to a fresh boot. now you can force swap prefetch to start working, i use it now and then after some heavy taskts which pulled everything to swap. > For those users who feel they do have a compelling argument for it, please > speak now or I'll end up maintaining this in -ck only forever. I've come > to depend on it with my workloads now so I'm never dropping it. There's no > point me explaining how it is useful yet again, though, because I just end > up looking like I'm handwaving. It seems a shame for it not to be available > to all linux users. > > Cheers, > Con > _______________________________________________ > http://ck.kolivas.org/faqs/replying-to-mailing-list.txt > ck mailing list - mailto: [email protected] > http://vds.kolivas.org/mailman/listinfo/ck -- You will gain money by a fattening action.
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