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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: dan@daniel-wynne-humphries.com
Cc: bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Subject: Re: [Bug 198913] New: Swapping slows to about 20% of expected speed when using multiple swap partitions on separate drives (striping).
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:23:46 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180306162346.2fad560fa6957480fde918e2@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-198913-27@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>


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On Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:56:38 +0000 bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198913
> 
>             Bug ID: 198913
>            Summary: Swapping slows to about 20% of expected speed when
>                     using multiple swap partitions on separate drives
>                     (striping).
> 
> ...
>
> Problems
> 1) Linux's swap striping on nine drives performs at only 19.5% of the speed of
> a memory-mapped file on a RAID 0 partition on the same nine drives.
> 2) Linux's swap striping performs best with exactly four swap partitions and
> performs almost as well with just three partitions.
> 

Well that's interesting, thanks.  Let's get this onto the mm
developers' mailing list and perhaps someone will have a theory.  And
perhaps Hugh will have a think about it when he returns to the fold.

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       reply	other threads:[~2018-03-07  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-198913-27@https.bugzilla.kernel.org/>
2018-03-07  0:23 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-03-07  0:57   ` Dan

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