Testing Precise Pangolin Beta2

Pasi Lallinaho pasi at shimmerproject.org
Tue Apr 24 14:59:29 UTC 2012


On 04/24/2012 05:57 PM, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> 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
> -- 
> Pasi Lallinaho (knome)                      » http://open.knome.fi/
> Leader of Xubuntu and Shimmer Project       » http://shimmerproject.org/
> Graphic artist, webdesigner, Ubuntu member  » http://xubuntu.org/

Actually, please just report a test in the ISO testing tracker and
register the bug there and we'll catch it automatically.

Thanks again,
Pasi

-- 
Pasi Lallinaho (knome)                      » http://open.knome.fi/
Leader of Xubuntu and Shimmer Project       » http://shimmerproject.org/
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