> Do you have situations in which swapoff is taking an unacceptable > amount of time? If so, please update the changelog to provide full > details on this, with before-and-after timing measurements.
Yes - because now and then (about once a month) with 3.10 or so + and encrypted swap my box with 16GB RAM gets into a weird 'slow swapping' state and only swapoff/swapon gets it back to sanity. In those cases (and in general) swapoff can take half an hour to run. There is a reproducer for the swap hang at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62321 The case I see in normal use (gimp of 1200dpi+ A3 images) hits a crawl not a hang and does recover but only if you swapoff/swapon again Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/