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FromCon Kolivas <>
SubjectRe: Slow swapon for big (12GB) swap
DateMon, 10 Apr 2006 20:27:13 +1000
On Monday 10 April 2006 20:25, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> The kernel is 2.6.16-rc3-git2-ck1. There is -ck patch in it but I strongly
> hope that swap prefetch is not *that* buggy to cause such things... I am
> considering testing vanilla. Con CC'd.

Turn it off by setting the swap_prefetch tunable to 0. That disables even 
storing swapped information. Swap prefetch does very little with that set to 
0, but ultimately you'd have to de-configure it to be sure I guess.

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