Re: Is IDLE session really idle?

On Montag 15 Juni 2009 Igor Polishchuk wrote:
> I see two ways to solve the problem.:

Why not just increase
vm.swappiness = 100
in /etc/sysctl.conf, and/or use ramzswap? That will swap out unneeded
memory very fast, and free it for use by others.

There was an article on lwn.net recently:
http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/334649/76bbe60a81cfc7f5/
( Compcache: in-memory compressed swapping )
If installed it on several servers, and my desktop. quite nice:
Compresses 2GB to 512MB on my desktop, or 494MB to 186MB on a server.

Even if staying with "normal" swap, increasing the swappiness can
quickly free memory, but swap I/O might slow things down, depending on
your setup.

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