Bug#581488: general: lower vm.swappiness by default for desktop installations

2010-05-25 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 12 mai 2010 à 21:22 +0200, Marcus Better a écrit : Recently I got the advice [1] to set vm.swappiness to 0, rather than the default 60. This improved things dramatically. Apparently Eclipse is no longer being swapped out preemptively all the time. The difference in perceived

Bug#581488: general: lower vm.swappiness by default for desktop installations

2010-05-13 Thread Marcus Better
Package: general Severity: wishlist I have been plagued by long delays with an unresponsive laptop, waiting for it to swap in Eclipse for several minutes at a time, several times per day. This is a Thinkpad T61 with 4 GB of RAM, squeeze/sid, X.org, KDE and Eclipse. (4 GB ought to be enough for