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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
