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2012-07-28 , 00:29
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#111
Originally Posted by peterleinchen View Post
I think you are wrong. Only amount of swap data in use, i.e. what conky (cat /proc/swaps) shows, will be moved. So bigger swap parts will help to minimze swap refresh actions, as time until fragmentation starts, will increase.
(did not test yet, but am pretty sure)
Yep. Bigger swaps are for having less PITA with frequent reswaps, as 2GB swap require 2x less often reswaps, that 1GB. Time for actutal process of reswapping doesn't change.

Which may make reswap painfully long, is many programs opened (which eats memory and increase amount of swap used), as more data need to be reswapped. Thus, it's recommended to reswap without any programs opened (or lightweight ones like terminal).

Extreme example of bad idea is reswapping with ED Chromium open, and 10+ tabs with real pages inside. It can take 10 minutes or more to reswap...

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