Swapfile problem in 6?

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu Nov 17 17:01:08 PST 2005


On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 04:33:50PM -0800, Rob wrote:
> --- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > 
> > I commented on it elsewhere in this thread.
> 
> Do you mean your comment on the swap_pager error:
> 
> Quote:
>  "AFAICT that is just a trigger-happy timer..it's
>   supposed to detect when a swap operation took too
>   long to complete, but it also triggers on swapfiles
>   since they're so much less efficient (i.e. slower)
>   than swapping onto a bare device."
> EndQuote.

Right: "harmless warning" not "error".

> Remains the question: using this swapfile always
> worked
> very well with 5-Stable, but suddenly with 6 I run
> into
> these troubles.
> 
> I hoped that the debugger output made some sense to
> an expert as to why this happens with 6, but never
> with 5....

Give it a little time for someone to take a look.

Kris
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