Re: speeding up swapoff

From: Xavier Bestel
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 10:07:18 EST


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.


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