Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 22:20:55
Message-Id: 4DDD8024.3000005@wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
2
3 > On Wednesday 25 May 2011 16:20:58 Alex Schuster wrote:
4 >
5 >> So, 27 minutes to put 885MB of swap back into RAM, with the double amount of
6 >> that being free RAM. I monitored with iotop, and the transfer rate started
7 >> around 60-100 K/s, later it went higher. But the average transfer rate is
8 >> 550K/s. Shouldn't swap be, like, a little faster?
9 >
10 > no, sounds about right. Swap in linux is brain damaging slow. If you think
11 > about it your gall bladder might explode. That slow.
12
13 Oh. _That_ slow.
14
15 Wonko