Alex Schuster wrote: > 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 > >
Is there a way to find out what is using swap? Maybe something related to the video is on swap which at times can be slow, certainly slower than ram. I have always wondered how to find this out myself. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
