Thread: Massive interactivity improvement under high I/O load!
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2011-02-17 , 05:50
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Originally Posted by epitaph View Post
My tools is using mlock to lock x into ram. It seems to work. U should try it. And also hawaii is a troll.
I'm not even in this thread and you're calling me out? Seriously? "Your tool" is cobbled together scripts. Your tool uses libraries that OTHER people wrote and you give no credit.

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
Personally, I didn't even know so much useful-only-at-boot crap sat in the ram indefinitely. If these things sit in ram after boot, can't a script be written to simply get rid of all the stuff like that that wastes memory space?
You can drop free caches however AFAIK you'll notice higher load and RAM usage because there are no more caches. When a process needs memory dirty caches are dropped. Best to let the kernel handle what it does best?

I've off-loaded swap to my microSD. There's a noticeable decrease in IO "collision" and my device is much more responsive during those times.
Last edited by hawaii; 2011-02-17 at 06:08.
 

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