xlock too slow to wake up
oxy
oxyopes at googlemail.com
Fri May 18 14:01:41 UTC 2012
>Because all your normally-running programs are idle, the kernel will
>feel free to swap out your programs and use the resulting memory for
>these bookkeeping processes/disk caching. "Swapping out", FYI, means
>that the in-memory content of your programs are written to disk (that's
>what swap space is, disk space reserved to hold memory overflow). Then
>when you come in in the morning and press a key to wake up your programs
>the kernel has to swap them back in again (read them out of disk swap
>space and into memory). This can take a long time (relatively speaking).
I guess thats it. I have 2x 4GB swap, running many progs+virtualbox
continuously. In the morning i wait 1-5 minutes till i get a passwd prompt.
Today i went to tty1 and called top, no strange process there.
The question is: cannt i get it faster by default setting xlock to higher
priority?
thx...
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