Mike Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 7 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > Does this improve the swapoff speed or just allow other programs to > > run at the same time? If it is still slow under that kind of load it > > would be interesting to know what is taking up all time. > > > > If it is no longer slow a patch should be made and sent to Linus. > > No, it only cures the freeze. The other appears to be the slow code > pointed out by Andrew Morton being tickled by dead swap pages. O.k. I think I'm ready to nominate the dead swap pages for the big 2.4.x VM bug award. So we are burning cpu cycles in sys_swapoff instead of being IO bound? Just wanting to understand this the cheap way :) Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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