Re: excessive swap-in time

phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
I sometimes encounter swap-in times for some heavy processes (usually the
Firefox browser) that can take a few MINUTES to complete. Reading all of
the swap space sequentially only takes 40 seconds. I think what really
is happening is that the process is swapping back out as it needs space
to swap in, even though the total VM size is less than half of real RAM.

If that is the case (i have not seen it personnally on Linux recently),
then the VM system in Linux is still broken. Please try FreeBSD and
see if such nonsense occurs.


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Michel TALON

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