4-core slow due to disk access

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby]

> "Joep L. Blom" <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> :
> I cannot imagine that the system is constantly swapping.

You could be certain of the swapping behaviour by looking at the
"swapiness" setting:
http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+sysctl+swapiness

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