[PLUG] Question About Linux Behavior

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "fh" == fh hillsboro <linux at frankhunt.com> writes:

fh> [...] When I get back from $tarbuck$ and user activity resumes,
fh> there is significant latency while the disk beats it's brains out
fh> reloading everything back into memory (like 20-30 seconds for
fh> thunderbird to get it's brains back, for instance).  Is there any
fh> way to keep the applications from being swapped out in favor of
fh> (what I am assuming is) the disk cache?

Turn off swap?  E.g.:

  # swapoff -a


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