Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:56:01
Message-Id: 5430211.xniV3AiSOY@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Swap performance by Alex Schuster
1 On Wednesday 25 May 2011 16:20:58 Alex Schuster wrote:
2
3 > So, 27 minutes to put 885MB of swap back into RAM, with the double amount of
4 > that being free RAM. I monitored with iotop, and the transfer rate started
5 > around 60-100 K/s, later it went higher. But the average transfer rate is
6 > 550K/s. Shouldn't swap be, like, a little faster?
7
8 no, sounds about right. Swap in linux is brain damaging slow. If you think
9 about it your gall bladder might explode. That slow.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>