Re: [PATCH] 2.6.4-rc2-mm1: vm-split-active-lists

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Mar 13 2004 - 07:38:12 EST


Hi!
> > That effect is to cause the whole world to be swapped out when people
> > return to their machines in the morning.
>
> The correct solution to this problem is "suspend-to-disk" --
> if the machine isn't doing anything anyway, TURN IT OFF.

Try it.

With current design, machine swaps *a lot* after resume.

Suspend-to-ram is probably better.

But if you don't run your updatedb overnight, you are going to
run it while you are logged in, and that is going to suck.
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