From: Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VMM - freeing up swap space
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:27:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020619012752.GA7157@zero> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0206181903550.1374-100000@localhost.localdomain>
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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Tom Vier <tmv@comcast.net>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-19 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-18 15:56 VMM - freeing up swap space Gregory Giguashvili
2002-06-18 15:10 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-18 16:32 ` DevilKin
2002-06-18 16:56 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-06-18 18:17 ` Hugh Dickins
2002-06-19 1:27 ` Tom Vier [this message]
2002-06-18 16:04 ` Austin Gonyou
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2002-06-18 17:26 Gregory Giguashvili
2002-06-18 22:00 ` Jelle Foks
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