Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: speeding up swapoff | Date | Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:18:42 +0200 |
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Am Mittwoch 29 August 2007 schrieb Hugh Dickins: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Am Mittwoch 29 August 2007 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > > > Another question, if this is during system shutdown, maybe that's a > > > valid case for flushing most of the pagecache first (from userspace) > > > since most of what's there won't be used again anyway. If that's enough > > > to make this go faster... > > > > Is there a good reason to swapoff during shutdown? > > Three reasons, I think, only one of them compelling: > > 1. Tidiness. > 2. So swapoff gets testing and I get to hear of any bugs in it. > 3. If a regular swapfile is used instead of a disk partition, you > need to swapoff before its filesystem can be unmounted cleanly.
Yes. I hadn't thought of that. I am using a dedicated disk.
Regards Oliver
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