ConsulCaesar: Yay, no more GOGbears when clicking "Forum replies". :)
Excellent isn't it!
Themken: Linux and not fine. Sluggish as a slug in mid-winter.
Themken write vm.swappiness=1 on your /etc/sysctl.conf file, Problem solved.
Also Themken
Try this:
sync
echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testfile count=1 bs=900M
sysctl -w vm.vfs_cache_pressure=100
find / > /dev/null
cp /tmp/testfile /tmp/testfile2
time find / > /dev/null
sysctl -w vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
find / > /dev/null
cp /tmp/testfile2 /tmp/testfile3
time find / > /dev/null
rm -f /tmp/testfile /tmp/testfile2 /tmp/testfile3
To make the change permanent, put vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50 on your /etc/sysctl.conf file.
Experiment with this value. Values close to 100 provide no gain. Values close to zero can cause huge swap activity during big filesystem scans.