On Tue, Aug 20, 2024 at 11:34:32PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > > Just adding a “sleep” is no proper fix anyway, so the question > is, how to wait in a shell script until the swap device is > *really* swapoff’d when the syscall returns too early, and > (someone from the Linux kernel maintainers reading this?) should > I report the latter as a bug against the kernel? > I forget where and when (a long time ago?) but I recall having learned that prior to swapoff it is necessary to call sync and in my history I have it like this:
sync && sync && sync && swapoff I couldn't tell why I have sync 3 times, but I know that it's how I've called swapoff since as far back as I can remember. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
