Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761036AbXH3OLe (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:11:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760623AbXH3OLW (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:11:22 -0400 Received: from embla.aitel.hist.no ([158.38.50.22]:39889 "EHLO embla.aitel.hist.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760551AbXH3OLV (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:11:21 -0400 Message-ID: <46D6CEF3.3070701@aitel.hist.no> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:06:43 +0200 From: Helge Hafting User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Xavier Bestel CC: Robert Hancock , Daniel Drake , Arjan van de Ven , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 587 Lines: 17 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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/