Re: [perf-discuss] Forcing swap contents back into memory?

2007-10-07 Thread Sean Sprague
Peter, > Have you tried to delete the swap device? I don't think you will be able to do this. I have a very old and faint memory that when swap is established at boot time, that some memory is immediately swapped/paged out, or some space in the swap device is immediately allocated, (probably)

Re: [perf-discuss] Forcing swap contents back into memory?

2007-10-07 Thread Peter Tribble
On 10/7/07, Mario Goebbels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whenever there's a significant amount of pages swapped, where significant > seems to be merely 100 megabytes or so, shutting down the system properly > becomes a matter of luck. Hm. Never seen anything like that. Even with tens of gigabytes

[perf-discuss] Forcing swap contents back into memory?

2007-10-07 Thread Mario Goebbels
Whenever there's a significant amount of pages swapped, where significant seems to be merely 100 megabytes or so, shutting down the system properly becomes a matter of luck. I've read before on the mailing lists that swapping pages back in is rather, lets say, icky (resulting in the VM 2.0 initi