[maemo-developers] swap not a substitute for virtual memory

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 04:13:54PM +0100, Tony Green wrote:
> > For what it is worth, after I removed /usr/bin/metalayer-crawler, my
> > system went from being completely unusable for anything but being a
> > broken alarm clock to being relatively useful.
> 
> metalayer-crawler's generally only a system-hog at bootup, so shouldn't cause 
> many problems unless you completely shut down and reboot your device rather 
> than just suspending it.
> 
> I must admit to being surprised how badly it slows the system down, since 
> according to the init file, it apparently should be running with a niceness 
> of 19, so should pretty much only get CPU time when nothing else requires it.

Perhaps it should be ionice'd as well?  Heavy I/O may hog the system
down even if the process is niced.

What I/O scheduler does Maemo use?  ionice only works with CFQ.

Marius Gedminas
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