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How to tame Linux responsiveness, memory, and paging

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First question on overflow =)... +100 bounty. Couldn't think of something I really cared about until now: I'm really fed up with the state of Linux desktop responsiveness, e.g. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/85/ -- in situations with low free-RAM, or situations with high disk throughput, the sys…

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Sounds like your system goes into heavy swapping. Using may reveal some details - just let it run in a terminal window and switch to it when the slowdown kicks in. Rather than putting /tmp and "cache" into tmpfs, I would use a normal disk filesystem…

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