Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ah, that is Lennarts Pulse Audio thing, he has samples in memory which > might not have been used for a while, and he wants to be able to > pre-fetch those when he suspects they might need to be played. So that > once the audio thread comes along and stuffs them down /dev/dsp its all > nice in memory.
The real problem that seems to make swapping so slow is that the data tends to be badly fragmented on the swap partition. I suspect if that problem was attached the need for such prefetching would be far less because swap in would be much faster. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
