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SubjectRe: [RFC] mm:prototype for the updated swapoff implementation
> Do you have situations in which swapoff is taking an unacceptable
> amount of time? If so, please update the changelog to provide full
> details on this, with before-and-after timing measurements.

Yes - because now and then (about once a month) with 3.10 or so + and
encrypted swap my box with 16GB RAM gets into a weird 'slow swapping'
state and only swapoff/swapon gets it back to sanity.

In those cases (and in general) swapoff can take half an hour to run.

There is a reproducer for the swap hang at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62321

The case I see in normal use (gimp of 1200dpi+ A3 images) hits a crawl
not a hang and does recover but only if you swapoff/swapon again

Alan


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