[niftydude]

Quote:yes, you are right. that's why CoW is turned off for the swapfile. you can check that with "lsattr /var/swapfile". should look like:

---------------C /var/swapfile

Hi MK, unfortunately turning CoW off isn't enough - from the btrfs wiki:
"Just making a file NOCOW does not help, swap file support relies on one function that btrfs intentionally does not implement due to potential corruptions."

I'm at work now, but I'll try creating a swap partition and changing the zram script to use it when I get home later tonight.

You are right - I haven't looked at btrfs and the sqlite db file performance to see if that's causing a big slowdown as well. One problem at a time is enough for me