Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:27:52 -0400 | From | Tom Vier <> | Subject | Re: VMM - freeing up swap space |
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:17:00PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > In what forum, by the way, may I suggest to distros that they "rm -rf" > in any tmpfs mounts before shutdown swapoff? It avoids this OOM issue > at shutdown, plus it's a whole lot faster than doing the swapoff.
actually, debian testing's /etc/init.d/umountfs umounts tmpfs before swapoff. tmpfs contents are freed on umount, so there's no need for rm -rf (it would be slower, anyway).
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