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explicit pagein

Posted Jul 27, 2007 22:12 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: IWFM by dmarti
Parent article: Still waiting for swap prefetch

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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