https://www.bennee.com/~alex/2009-12-15T10:36:00+00:00the wanderings of a supposed digital native2009-12-15T10:36:00+00:002009-12-15T10:36:00+00:00alextag:www.bennee.com,2009-12-15:/~alex/blog/2009/12/15/morning-coffee-for-my-workstation/

<p>My work machine has always been slow in the mornings. I may have moaned about this before but it's mainly due to the rather excessive overnight processing it does (convert a 3.8G CVS repo into a 714M GIT repo). This tends to leave all the active applications somewhere in …</p>

<p>My work machine has always been slow in the mornings. I may have moaned about this before but it's mainly due to the rather excessive overnight processing it does (convert a 3.8G CVS repo into a 714M GIT repo). This tends to leave all the active applications somewhere in swap. With 3G of RAM in my machine this shouldn't really be a problem. Last night I enabled a very short script to run at 6.00 every morning:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> #!/bin/bash swapoff -a sleep 10s swapon -a </pre> <p>The machine certainly seemed a lot snappier this morning when I sat down in front of it.</p>