Well the perceived performance sure isn't even remotely close to
prior kernels. As was mentioned in some earlier messages in this thread,
the system completely freezes while transfering stuff to swap, and since
the kernel seems to transfer much more to swap now, it just exacerbates
the problem.
Far be it from me to criticize ideas made by those who know
much more than me, but personally I don't see how transfering stuff to swap
immediately instead of grabbing what ram we can from the disk
cache first could be considered faster or preferable. As far as
I can see, it would be much better performance-wise to delay swapping as
long as there's ram to be had from the disk cache. Isn't this the main
reason the disk cache is dynamic in size?
-Scott
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