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Re: [SLE] swap filesystem size limit?
- From: Hans Witvliet <hwit@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 06:10:39 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <1160374221.6940.2.camel@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 01:10 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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> The Monday 2006-10-09 at 00:03 +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
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> > What's the point of writing that info back to a swap partition, (as it
> > is already somewhere on disk anyhow)
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> It is not written.
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After a "sync" all unwritten buffers should be commited to disk
(according to man&info)
It should not only limit the amount of needed swap-space, but also
speed-up suspend & resume, not?
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> The Monday 2006-10-09 at 00:03 +0200, Hans Witvliet wrote:
>
> > What's the point of writing that info back to a swap partition, (as it
> > is already somewhere on disk anyhow)
>
> It is not written.
>
After a "sync" all unwritten buffers should be commited to disk
(according to man&info)
It should not only limit the amount of needed swap-space, but also
speed-up suspend & resume, not?
>
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