Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
>
> > I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one,
> > including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I
> > finally have to actually do some work.
>
> I recently experienced slowdowns and delays with KDE. It turned out I
> had inadvertently disabled swap (I'd rearranged my partitions and not
> updated fstab). As soon as I gave it some swap space the delays
> disappeared.
There's plenty of swap space available. With 16 G of RAM it should not
be needed, but sometimes my load gets really really high, and when I can
use the system again, there is 2-3 G of swap usage. I haven't found out
yet what this is, it seems to happen when emerging things, maybe related
to having 5 G tmpfs for portage, but when it happened the last time only
100 M were being used.
Wonko
