On 04/13/2011 08:06 AM, gene heskett wrote: >> I'm making a SWAG there might be an issue with your swap partition, >> rather than umounting /var. If the shutdown is hanging on the "Turning >> off swap" it's probably not getting to the the umount on the /var >> partition. Try creating a new swap partition if you have the space on >> another disk and deleting the original swap partition. >> >> Mark > > Because linux actively looks for swaps on all drives, and I generally match > swap to memory in the individual swap, I have around 12Gb of swap on 3 > drives available. And I can do swapoff -a; swapon -a with no problems > except the swap on the drive I'll be moving this install to has been moved, > and swapon -a claims it can't find the BLKID of the one on that drive, so I > am down to 8Gb of swap at the moment. So its almost a shrug. :) > > Thanks Mark.
Gene, How much memory do you have? If you have 4 GB of memory, there's no reason to have anywhere near that much swap. If you need to swap 12 GB of stuff, you have a hell of a lot of stuff going on, along with all the IO contention that goes along with all the reads/writes to that much swap. These days, with the cheap memory, I don't create more than 2 GB of swap on any machine, even my high end servers. Especially so with 32 bit OS's. Try making one swap partition, no bigger than 2 GB and see what happens. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
