From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 00:18:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DDD8024.3000005@wonkology.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5430211.xniV3AiSOY@localhost>
Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
> On Wednesday 25 May 2011 16:20:58 Alex Schuster wrote:
>
>> So, 27 minutes to put 885MB of swap back into RAM, with the double amount of
>> that being free RAM. I monitored with iotop, and the transfer rate started
>> around 60-100 K/s, later it went higher. But the average transfer rate is
>> 550K/s. Shouldn't swap be, like, a little faster?
>
> no, sounds about right. Swap in linux is brain damaging slow. If you think
> about it your gall bladder might explode. That slow.
Oh. _That_ slow.
Wonko
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-25 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-25 14:20 [gentoo-user] Swap performance Alex Schuster
2011-05-25 15:31 ` Paul Hartman
2011-05-25 16:58 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-25 19:34 ` Paul Hartman
2011-05-25 20:03 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-25 20:38 ` Alex Schuster
2011-05-25 22:40 ` Alex Schuster
2011-05-26 16:30 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-25 16:49 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-26 20:49 ` Mick
2011-05-25 16:53 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-25 20:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-26 13:32 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-05-25 22:18 ` Alex Schuster [this message]
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2011-05-26 17:26 Alex Schuster
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