Re: [tlug] Possible command to boost to laptop performance

[Edward Middleton <edward.middleton@example.com>]

On 11/03/2010 07:04 PM, Marty Pauley wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Dave M G<dave@example.com>  wrote:
> > I find that on my Ubuntu laptop, running this when the memory and cache
> > usage seems high (going by the memory/cache monitor graph Gnome panel
> > applet) will cause the memory and cache to drop by half or more. Not
> > always, but often enough. As a result, the laptop seems to perform
> > better, as I think it's *swapping less*.
>
> I would have thought it would perform _worse_ just after you flush all
> the cache, since the cache is there to improve performance.

If your applications have exhausted all available memory and are running 
on swap, more aggressive culling of the cache might improve performance ;)

Edward