From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2a07.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id CEB5170000A4 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:15:00 +0200 (CEST) Received: from awak.dyndns.org (AGrenoble-257-1-54-65.w86-206.abo.wanadoo.fr [86.206.29.65]) by mwinf2a07.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id BF313700009E for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:15:00 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: speeding up swapoff From: Xavier Bestel In-Reply-To: <46D6CEF3.3070701@aitel.hist.no> References: <46D61F48.5090406@shaw.ca> <46D6CC35.90207@aitel.hist.no> <1188482815.1131.374.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> <46D6CEF3.3070701@aitel.hist.no> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:14:57 +0200 Message-Id: <1188483297.1131.377.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Helge Hafting Cc: Robert Hancock , Daniel Drake , Arjan van de Ven , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org