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Ibex

Member

Registered: 2006-03-02

Posts: 135

Free the swap

I'm using a laptop, so using swap results in my computer slowing down. Therefore, I wrote a page on the wiki to empty the swap, and make the computer running smooth again:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Empty_Swap

Positive criticism is welcome .

Sigi

Member

From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: Free the swap

Thank you! Nice script/wiki-page

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Haven't been here in a while. Still rocking Arch.

Gvalandor

Member

Registered: 2005-09-29

Posts: 9

Re: Free the swap

It sounds like you might want to check out the "swap prefetching" support in the -ck kernels instead. It intelligently reloads the swapped memory back to RAM when the machine is idle.

The support can be found under

General Setup -> Support for paging of anonymous memory -> Support for prefetching swapped memory

in make menuconfig.

brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: Free the swap

BTW, the swap prefetch option is enabled in kernel26beyond from the extra repository.

tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Free the swap

And in kernel26ck in community.