From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 07:54:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Mikael Abrahamsson Subject: Re: Please test: workaround to help swapoff behaviour In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Stephen Tweedie List-ID: 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. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se -- 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/