On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Mittwoch 29 August 2007 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > > Another question, if this is during system shutdown, maybe that's a > > valid case for flushing most of the pagecache first (from userspace) > > since most of what's there won't be used again anyway. If that's enough > > to make this go faster... > > Is there a good reason to swapoff during shutdown?
Three reasons, I think, only one of them compelling: 1. Tidiness. 2. So swapoff gets testing and I get to hear of any bugs in it. 3. If a regular swapfile is used instead of a disk partition, you need to swapoff before its filesystem can be unmounted cleanly. Hugh - 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/
