Thread: How to improve the N900 performance?
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2010-02-13 , 00:22
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#22
Originally Posted by Enyibinakata View Post
Disk thrashing is no good for performance.
To begin with, is there any thrashing? Currently I have 148/239 MB of RAM used, with additional 114 MB sitting in swap. The high usage of swap is not caused by the lack of free RAM, but because the unused memory pages were dumped to disk to free up the space for actually useful data.

You can always also disable the swap if you're so concerned about it.

The more you commit to swap, the harder the cpu has to work because it has to swap from disk to real memory hence the terrible lag.
I/O wait is not CPU usage.