On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:26:52PM +0000, Dawid Lorenz wrote:
> On 22 February 2010 18:06, Marius Gedminas <marius@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > (Note that after a fresh boot with hundreds of megs of swap used the UI
> > is still snappy; it's after a large app pushes essential bits of the OS
> > into swap that leaves the UI a bit struggling, even after you close that
> > large app -- the OS bits are swapped-in incrementally on demand, so
> > expect occasional pauses.)
>
> That's what exactly I suspect is happening here and I wonder whether there
> is some way of flushing memory and/or swap from leftovers of apps that got
> closed?
There are no leftovers of apps that got closed; AFAIU it's just that
apps/libraries that didn't get closed were pushed from RAM into swap and
haven't moved back in again. To force them back into RAM you can try
sudo gainroot
swapoff -a; swapon -a
Marius Gedminas
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