On Wednesday 23 May 2007 06:42, Ash Milsted wrote:
> Hi. I just did some video encoding on my desktop and I was noticing
> (for the first time in a while) that running apps had to hit swap quite
> a lot when I switched to them (the encoding was going at full blast for
> most of the day, and most of the time other running apps were
> idle). Now, a good half of my RAM appeared to be free during all this,
> so I was thinking at the time that it would be nice if swap prefetch
> could be tunably more aggressive. I guess it would be ideal in this
> case if it could kick in during tunably low disk-IO periods, even if
> the CPU is rather busy. I'm sure you've considered this, so I only butt
> in here to cast a vote for it. :)
In this case nicing the video encode should be enough to make it prefetch even
during heavy cpu usage. It detects the total nice level rather than the cpu
usage.
> Of course, I could be completely wrong about the possibility.. and I
> seem to remember that the disk cache can take up about half the ram by
> default without this showing up in 'gnome-system-monitor'... which I
> guess might happen during heavy encoding.. but even if it did, I could
> have set the limit lower, and would then have still appreciated
> prefetching.
I plan to make it prefetch more aggressively by default soon and make it more
tunable too.
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