On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:32:45PM +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > 50mb in swap - and everything is slow. So slow as if every bit is fetched by > a > mule caravan. And it does not matter if it is a swap partition or a swap > file. It is slow. > > But there is an easy way to get the box back to normal speed: swapoff -a && > swapon -a ...
Perhaps better to tweak the VM so it is not as swap-happy using /proc/sys/vm/swappiness. See http://kerneltrap.org/node/1044 -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
