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memtester runs faster after couple of runs

I am using this test tool : http://pyropus.ca/software/memtester/ And I noticed that first 3 iterations take 4 hours but 30 iterations take only 12 hours. I was hoping that 30 iterations will take 40 ...
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Compare usage of memory by window managers

I'd like to test a few window managers to see which of them takes less memory and CPU in certain time period (so is better choice for older computers). I'd like to make the tests myself (not to read a ...
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Is there a way to kick kswapd and make it swap out pages?

Even though I have set swappiness to 100 and enabled swap, nothing is being swapped out. This is probably because I don't have high memory pressure at the moment. For testing purposes though, I want ...