Re: RHEL 4 improvement in use of swap? (compared to RHEL 3)

[Jeffrey Siegal <jbs quiotix com>]

On Oct 28, 2005, at 16:38 , John Summerfied wrote:

> > > I'd also suggest you enable prelinking if you haven't.  FC3   
> > > includes prelink but doesn't disable it by default.
>
> Sloe to load a program isn't so bad; it's the delay swapping  
> between Moz and tbird ow whatever that I was thinking of. I tend to  
> have lots of virtual desktops (16 in KDE), many used, lots of  
> windows and (in browsers), lots of tabs.

In addition to startup time, prelinking also reduces memory usage and  
swapping.  That's why I've mentioned it within the context of people  
trying to run on low memory boxes.

> Red Hat seems to have everything hooked into anacron, so for EL/FC  
> users this shouldn't be a problem.

That's assuming you have anacron installed.  I'm pretty sure its  
optional and I don't remember if its installed by default.