[PLUG] Morning wakeup

[Brent Rieck]

Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> This is a minor annoyance, but it irks me that a computer has a
> harder time waking up than I do.  Should I be looking for some
> kind of misconfiguration?  Can I run an "unswap the apps" script
> after backups?  Should I pour hot coffee on the CPU?  Should I
> just chill out and meditate for 30 seconds?

The same thing used to happen to me until I reduced the size of my swap, 
it was 2G because I had the vague idea that more was better.  I reduced 
my swap size to the 1/2 size of ram (I have 512M ram, so 256M) and the 
"morning wakeup" improved dramatically (as did a bunch of other things).

--Brent