Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

2016-06-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 02 June 2016 09:50:31 basti wrote: > so why you don't use this? Why doesn't who use it? Lisi

Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

2016-06-02 Thread Till Smejkal
On Thu, 02 Jun 2016, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 at 17:51, basti wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > on a low voltage cpu system I can see that the creation of an 1 GB swap > > file can take several minutes. (The file-system is on SD-card which > > write about 6-7 MB/s). > > > > As I see fa

Re: dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

2016-06-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, 2 Jun 2016 at 17:51, basti wrote: > Hello, > > on a low voltage cpu system I can see that the creation of an 1 GB swap > file can take several minutes. (The file-system is on SD-card which > write about 6-7 MB/s). > > As I see fallocate can do this job much faster, so why you don't use th

dphys-swapfile why don't us fallocate to create swapfile

2016-06-02 Thread basti
Hello, on a low voltage cpu system I can see that the creation of an 1 GB swap file can take several minutes. (The file-system is on SD-card which write about 6-7 MB/s). As I see fallocate can do this job much faster, so why you don't use this? fallocate is also part of the util-linux package wh