Testing Precise Pangolin Beta2

Pasi Lallinaho pasi at shimmerproject.org
Tue Apr 24 14:57:28 UTC 2012


On 04/24/2012 04:22 AM, Gustavo R Leal wrote:
>
> I believe I've found the problem of excessive swapping with 1GB of memory.
>
> There is a script "/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/laptop-mode" that is
> setting these weird values to VM tunable kernel parameters when on AC
> power:
>
> dirty_background_ratio=5
> dirty_ratio=10
>
> The line 69 of the script is the following:
>
>         write_values 0 10 5 500
>
> Changing the line with these values resulted in being able to run the
> system with 1GB without swap and good performance.
>
>         write_values 0 90 20 500
>
>
> I think it needs some attention.
>
> Thanks,
>   Gustavo Rybarczyk.
>
>
>
>
>
>

Hey Gustavo,

can you file a bug and paste a link it to this mailing list?

Thanks,
Pasi

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