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
