Re: [kde-linux] VM and Swap problems

Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:33:39 Randy Kramer wrote:

The VM and swap work fine till the swap space is half full. But, after
swap is half full the system starts removing swap until it is exactly
half full. When this happens, the VM system starts to thrash and the
system won't do anything till the thrashing stops.

512Mb swap? That's a fair amount of swapspace, more than you should need for
desktop use. Maybe one of your applications leak memory (I have a webpage
that makes konqueror leak insane amount of memory). Try checking with top
what applications use lots of memory.

I know what is using most of the space. Each time you open another
window or tab in Konqueror, it needs a lot of memory. So, if you open
half a dozen, or so, Konqueror windows each with half a dozen tabs, or
so, it uses a lot of memory which is swapped out.

What I need is to use over half of my swap space.

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JRT
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