Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 02:07:31 -0700 From: Marcus Reid <marcus@blazingdot.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, Slawa Olhovchenkov <slw@zxy.spb.ru>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duration of buildworld Message-ID: <20150728090730.GA65709@blazingdot.com> In-Reply-To: <20150727184704.GA1777@c720-r276659> References: <20150727055804.GA2312@c720-r276659> <20150727120006.GJ43740@zxy.spb.ru> <20150727184704.GA1777@c720-r276659>
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On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 08:47:04PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > This pointed in the right direction. I have had 6x 1 GByte additional > swap partitions to plain files mounted Swap devices are used in an interleaved fashion. By having multiple file-backed swap devices on (presumably) the same disk, you are multiplying the disk thrashing that happens when you swap. This could slow things down quite a bit. Marcus
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