On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 5:47 AM ValdikSS <iam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This patchset is surprisingly effective and very useful for low-end PC > with slow HDD, single-board ARM boards with slow storage, cheap Android > smartphones with limited amount of memory. It almost completely prevents > thrashing condition and aids in fast OOM killer invocation. > Can you please post your hardware information like what is the cpu, how much memory you have and also post your sysctl knobs, like how do you set vm.anon_min_kbytes, vm.clean_low_kbytes and vm.clean_min_kbytes? > The similar file-locking patch is used in ChromeOS for nearly 10 years > but not on stock Linux or Android. It would be very beneficial for > lower-performance Android phones, SBCs, old PCs and other devices. > Can you post the link of the similar file-locking patch? > With this patch, combined with zram, I'm able to run the following > software on an old office PC from 2007 with __only 2GB of RAM__ > simultaneously: > > * Firefox with 37 active tabs (all data in RAM, no tab unloading) > * Discord > * Skype > * LibreOffice with the document opened > * Two PDF files (14 and 47 megabytes in size) > > And the PC doesn't crawl like a snail, even with 2+ GB in zram! > Without the patch, this PC is barely usable. > Please watch the video: > https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/linux-for-old-pc-from-2007/en/ > The video was captured before using this patch? what video says "the result of the test computer after the configuration", what does "the configuration" mean? Thanks Barry
