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On Mittwoch, 14. März 2007, Jack Lloyd wrote: |
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> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:32:45PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: |
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> > 50mb in swap - and everything is slow. So slow as if every bit is fetched |
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> > by a mule caravan. And it does not matter if it is a swap partition or a |
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> > swap file. It is slow. |
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> > But there is an easy way to get the box back to normal speed: swapoff -a |
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> > && swapon -a ... |
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> Perhaps better to tweak the VM so it is not as swap-happy using |
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> /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/1044 |
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swappiness does not help, if swap is really needed (like when compiling |
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kdepim). The 'stupid' thing is, as soon as swap is used, it stays that way, |
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no matter how many hundred mb of ram are free. |
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