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IWFMIWFMPosted Jul 26, 2007 16:13 UTC (Thu) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)In reply to: OpenOffice comes with a "pagein" utility. by corbet Parent article: Still waiting for swap prefetch
Subjectively, for me, running that shell function seems to get rid of the lag on alt-tab to Firefox, Gimp, or OpenOffice first thing in the morning.
What would be better, for a desktop system, would be a "goodnight" script that would run housekeeping tasks such as updatedb and logrotate, then page back in whatever the user had been working on, then suspend.
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explicit pagein Posted Jul 27, 2007 22:12 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] To avoid the manual step (either good morning or good night), I run this in a cron job every hour all day. It doesn't matter that the interactive programs get paged in uselessly several times during the night; even if done right in the middle of updatedb, they just get paged right out again and the cost is insignificant.I also send messages through some response-time-critical daemons regularly, to "loosen them up." I.e. page in executables, anonymous pages, etc.
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