From: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
To: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Slow swapon for big (12GB) swap
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 20:27:13 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200604102027.13741.kernel@kolivas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0604101218380.31989@alpha.polcom.net>
On Monday 10 April 2006 20:25, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> The kernel is 2.6.16-rc3-git2-ck1. There is -ck patch in it but I strongly
> hope that swap prefetch is not *that* buggy to cause such things... I am
> considering testing vanilla. Con CC'd.
Turn it off by setting the swap_prefetch tunable to 0. That disables even
storing swapped information. Swap prefetch does very little with that set to
0, but ultimately you'd have to de-configure it to be sure I guess.
--
-ck
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-10 10:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-09 11:45 Slow swapon for big (12GB) swap Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-04-10 7:34 ` Helge Hafting
2006-04-10 10:17 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-04-11 11:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-11 11:46 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-04-10 7:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-10 9:44 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-04-10 10:25 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-04-10 9:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-10 11:45 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-04-10 10:27 ` Con Kolivas [this message]
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