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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Please test: workaround to help swapoff behaviour
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 07:54:30 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106100752360.1004-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF2FF3269C.90D4688C-ON85256A66.006DEAFA@pok.ibm.com>

On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Bulent Abali wrote:

> to find the swap cache page for a given swap entry." And he posted a
> patch http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-mm/2001-03/msg00224.html
> His patch is in the Redhat 7.1 kernel 2.4.2-2 and not in 2.4.5.
>
> But in any case I believe the patch will not work as expected.

I second this. I have followed the discussion and I tried to swapoff a
vanilla redhat 7.1 machine with vanilla redhat kernel (celeron 500 with
IDE disks) with approx 100 megs in the swap and it took over a minute with
swapoff using 100% cpu.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-10  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-09 20:32 Bulent Abali
2001-06-10  2:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-10  5:54 ` Mikael Abrahamsson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-10 13:56 Bulent Abali
2001-06-08 23:53 Bulent Abali
2001-06-07 20:33 Bulent Abali
2001-06-07 19:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-08 21:11 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-07 17:10 Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps Marcelo Tosatti
2001-06-07 17:43 ` Please test: workaround to help swapoff behaviour Marcelo Tosatti

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