From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Swap performance
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:53:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5430211.xniV3AiSOY@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105251621.00659.wonko@wonkology.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-25 16:56 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 [this message]
2011-05-25 20:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-26 13:32 ` Sebastian Beßler
2011-05-25 22:18 ` Alex Schuster
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2011-05-26 17:26 Alex Schuster
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