I've got a question regarding VM management in Linux. I've got 512MB of RAM on my laptop and at times it can still be slow esp when the RAM is used up and starts accessing the swap. Setting swappiness to 10 doesn't really make a difference at all. However, (what I've heard) users of FreeBSD has attested that hitting swap on those BSD system does not make any noticeable effect on their system. Even when there's up to like 700MB of swap in use. On Linux, it seems that the opposite is true, when we hit swap, and then the disk starts to thrash violently and I get slow load-up of programs and even switching between virtual Desktops can be a real pain. Does anyone has more insight to this? I know the solution is to add more RAM but is that really a solution? I mean, it's like storage, is there really such a thing as "I've got enough storage?" -- Ow Mun Heng Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:56:38 up 1 day, 7:37, 7 users, load average: 0.30, 0.41, 0.41
