Originally Posted by shadowjk

First set all your swappolube/whatever to defaults or uninstall so it doesn't interfere.

Then:

Code:

echo 8192 > /sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/nr_requests
echo 8192 > /sys/block/mmcblk1/queue/nr_requests
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

Unpack or perform your heavy IO load.

After:

Code:

echo 100 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

I found this helps alot with large IO.