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Linux disk access slows down system

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Mar 15, 202613770 views
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My system slows down even when the CPU load is less than 100%, and I think it's doing this because it's writing to the swap partition. Yes, my swap partition is on a different disk than my OS. I remember this type of slowdown problem from Windows using ATA disks. It was solved by using DMA mode. I'…

Error Output

/dev/sda:
 multcount     =  0 (off)
 IO_support    =  1 (32-bit)
 readonly      =  0 (off)
 readahead     = 256 (on)
 geometry      = 182401/255/63, …

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You haven't asked a question. I suppose you meant to ask “why is my system slow” or “how can I make it faster”, both of which are too vague to be answerable. I'm going to partially address a less ambitious question, “How can I investigate my perform…

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