Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Thanks to debernardis and Saturn for the good job.
I tried Swappolube for some days. I could notice an increase in fluidity, particularly when switching among several open applications.

Unfortunately I also found a use case with a clear performance degradation: streaming video files from a UPnP media server.
With Swappolube off, streaming videos from my home PC through WLAN is flawless: playback never stops for buffering. With Swappolube on, all other things being equal, playback stops for buffering every 3-10 seconds.

I made a quick test: with 'Kill allocating task' off things improve slightly but not as much as to make watching videos enjoyable (i.e., playback stops every 10-30 seconds on average). When I have some time I will try to find the best settings.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Uploaded an updated version (0.2.0-1) in extras-devel.

The important change which could confuse previous users is that on start up the gui shows the *current* settings the system is running with.

changelog:
* Added two new buttons (current & proposed) to set the settings in the GUI.
* Added icons for the application manager and the desktop.
* Many code changes/splits in methods.
* Added several protections when handling updates.
* Fixed in GUI some directional errors.
* Constrained the entry values to 4 digits.

I have upload it to extras-devel; have tested it for some time but be vigilant as there have been too many changes in the code. Lazy people should wait till it's in testing.

Check later the wiki for more screenshots.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Why do some of the settings have 2 check marks? One of enablle and one for setting?

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

The first row of checkboxes is to enable the setting. If unchecked it will not write anything for this option.
The second row if checked will give a "1" if not then it's a "0" , i.e. True/False.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Thanks. Hope the newer version helps your tests. Please let us know of any results or recommended config for a specific use.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

hi

there is no v 0.2 in extras devil

can you upload this file here so we can to downliad it esay


thank you for this great work

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

There is. Maybe you need to refresh or something.
In any case: http://maemo.org/packages/view/swappolube/

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

btw: laptop_mode is not a on/off switch but a timeout to delay writeouts after the disk got waken up (and some more). For flash based devices it makes sense to increase this value (YMMV) to pile up writes and put less write wear on the flash chip.

Since seeking on flash is fast it makes also sense to increas vfs_cache_pressure to 200, then the kernel prefers page cache over filesystem buffers (hint: on machines with a lot of ram try 1 there (but not 0!)) that gives insanely fast disk access.

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Does this work with power kernel?:)

Re: [announce] swappolube to lubricate your gui
 

Yes, both with stock and Titan's power kernel. I tend to guess that it is going to work also with Lehto's kernel.