[niftydude]

Hi Guys,
I've been a long time user of xbian. I've loved it so far. Like others on this thread - I am having massive performance issues with this new beta, slow gui, bad video playback etc... I have the early rpi model with only 256mb ram. I have installed it from scratch.

I don't know if anyone's pointed this out yet, but I think the new performance problems come from having a swap file on a btrfs partition. Swap performance is going to be extremely bad on a copy-on-write file system like btrfs. (Don't take my word for it, more reading here: https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Does_btrfs_support_swap_files.3F )

Swap on an sd card is generally a bad idea, but if we need so much memory that we need swap, then we should create a new partition on the sd card for it, and not have the /var/swapfile file in the btrfs file system that xbian has now.

Thanks for the great work so far!