[ltp] noflushd

[Don Perley]

If you're stuck with 128 I agree to try a lighter weight window manager, 
maybe fvwm.

Memory chip prices have gone up this year, but a few weeks ago I was 
able to find a name brand 512 MB pc2700(laptop version) on sale for 
US$100 at Best Buy.
Adding that to the built-in 256 MB made a big difference in switching 
applications which used to cause swapping.


Marius Gedminas wrote:
>>Right now I'm running debian unstable using 
>>gnome, and only have 128 MB of memory, so it swaps quite a bit.
> 
> 
> Swapping will definitely wake up the disk.
> 
> I have 256 MB of memory, and I do not use GNOME.  IceWM (which is pretty
> lightweight), and a couple of Mozillas are enough to cause occasional
> swapping with 256 MB of RAM.  I disabled swap once when I was playing
> with laptop-mode, and was rewarded with 'VM killing process XFree86' in
> ten minutes.