Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: speeding up swapoff | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:14:57 +0200 |
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On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 16:06 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Xavier Bestel wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 15:55 +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > >> If the swap device is full, then there is no need for random > >> seeks as the swap pages can be read in disk order. > >> > > > > If the swap file is full, you probably have a machine dead into a swap > > storm. > Only if you have enough swap. :-)
Yeah, sure. But these days disk space is cheap and I tend to put too big swap partitions, and I always regret it later ...
Xav
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