Well Mathieu Desnoyers did a fix for the write-cache accounting which solves the kernel write-cache to eat up all available memory + swap. Witout the fix the slowness is solved by setting swappiness to 0 or disabling swap, The fix is afaik not in 2.6.29.
Well Mathieu Desnoyers did a fix for the write-cache accounting which solves the kernel write-cache to eat up all available memory + swap. Witout the fix the slowness is solved by setting swappiness to 0 or disabling swap, The fix is afaik not in 2.6.29.