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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:27:52 -0400
From: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: VMM - freeing up swap space
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 07:17:00PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> In what forum, by the way, may I suggest to distros that they "rm -rf"
> in any tmpfs mounts before shutdown swapoff?  It avoids this OOM issue
> at shutdown, plus it's a whole lot faster than doing the swapoff.

actually, debian testing's /etc/init.d/umountfs umounts tmpfs before
swapoff. tmpfs contents are freed on umount, so there's no need for rm -rf
(it would be slower, anyway).

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