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Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)?

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Mike Castle dixit:

>Exactly.  In my experience, running swapoff(8) _will_ take a long time
>if the swap area has a lot of content.

Yes.

>It will block until everything is moved out.

Unfortunately not. It will block until *almost* everything is
moved out. I think what we’re seeing is that the request to move
out the last bits was sent but is processed async, or something.

I think at this point, perhaps the kernel team has an idea.

bye,
//mirabilos
PS: please keep Cc’ing me on replies, thanks!
-- 
<hecker> cool ein Ada Lovelace Google-Doodle. aber zum 197. Geburtstag? Hätten
die nicht noch 3 Jahre warten können? <mirabilos> bis dahin gibts google nicht
mehr <hecker> ja, könnte man meinen. wahrscheinlich ist der angekündigte welt-
untergang aus dem maya-kalender die globale abschaltung von google ☺ und darum
müssen die die doodles vorher noch raushauen

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    Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-08-21 02:20 +0200
      Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2024-08-21 08:50 +0200
        Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2024-08-21 13:40 +0200
          Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> - 2024-08-21 14:20 +0200
        Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Alain D D Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> - 2024-08-21 13:50 +0200
      Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2024-08-21 13:50 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-08-21 15:40 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Franco Martelli <martellif67@gmail.com> - 2024-08-21 16:00 +0200
    Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-21 23:20 +0200
      Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-08-22 14:50 +0200
        Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-08-22 17:50 +0200
          Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-22 19:30 +0200
            Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-08-22 21:40 +0200
              Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-08-23 05:40 +0200
            Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com> - 2024-08-23 04:50 +0200
              Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org> - 2024-08-23 05:20 +0200
  Re: wait until swapoff is *actually* finished (it returns too early)? Pierre-Elliott Bécue <peb@debian.org> - 2024-08-23 13:10 +0200
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