From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <46D6CEF3.3070701@aitel.hist.no> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:06:43 +0200 From: Helge Hafting MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: speeding up swapoff References: <46D61F48.5090406@shaw.ca> <46D6CC35.90207@aitel.hist.no> <1188482815.1131.374.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> In-Reply-To: <1188482815.1131.374.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-04> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Xavier Bestel Cc: Robert Hancock , Daniel Drake , Arjan van de Ven , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. :-) Helge Hafting -- 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