2006/1/24, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Did you ever try to adjust the "swappiness" of your system? I think it > is set quite high by default on Debian. This means that the kernel will > swap out sleeping processes quite aggressively as soon as there is the > slightest possibility that the RAM might be needed at some point in the > future. This is probably a good idea on a server. However, on desktop > machines, when latency in user interactions is a major annoyance, it is > usually better to set the swappiness to a low value. I use a swappiness > of 10 (the scale is 0-100) and I am quite happy with the resulting > behavior. You can find out your swappiness with > $ cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness > and change it with > # echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness > If a lower swappiness improves your issues with konqueror you can make > the setting persistent over reboots by adding the line > vm.swappiness = 10 > to your /etc/sysctl.conf.
Yes, on my system this is set to 40, probably I could still go lower. -- Frank Van Damme