Axel Dörfler wrote:
I always drive my system to the limit wherever possible, when testing. But since there's only 256Mb of real memory in use I wouldn't call this "heavy memory pressure" at all.Maybe there is something else wrong with your system, or are you just pushing it? Because Haiku currently gets pretty slow under heavy memory pressure, swap file or not.
I'm surprised that you say DMA is implemented, especially since it is taking in excess of 8 hours to simply copy the sources from one drive to another. That's not "pretty slow", it's broken.
Rob