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.

You mean when you return to it after leaving it idle for a while ?

There is a control knob in /proc/sys/vm/swappiness that might
alleviate that. Content is a decimal number from 0 to 100.
Higher values tell the kernel to swap out idle apps to make more
room for filesystem caches. Try echoing a low number into it
and see if it improves overall performance for you.

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