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SubjectRe: swapoff() runs forever
Richard Weinberger wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm observing a strange issue (at least on UML) on recent Linux kernels.
> If swap is being used the swapoff() system call never terminates.
> To be precise "while ((i = find_next_to_unuse(si, i)) != 0)" in try_to_unuse()
> never terminates.
>
> The affected machine has 256MiB ram and 256MiB swap.
> If an application uses more than 256MiB memory swap is being used.
> But after the application terminates the free command still reports that a few
> MiB are on my swap device and swappoff never terminates.

After last tmpfs changes swapoff can take minutes.
Or this time it really never terminates?

>
> Here some numbers:
> root@linux:~# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 255472 13520 241952 0 312 7080
> -/+ buffers/cache: 6128 249344
> Swap: 262140 17104 245036
> root@linux:~# cat /proc/meminfo
> MemTotal: 255472 kB
> MemFree: 241952 kB
> Buffers: 312 kB
> Cached: 7080 kB
> SwapCached: 0 kB
> Active: 3596 kB
> Inactive: 6076 kB
> Active(anon): 1512 kB
> Inactive(anon): 848 kB
> Active(file): 2084 kB
> Inactive(file): 5228 kB
> Unevictable: 0 kB
> Mlocked: 0 kB
> SwapTotal: 262140 kB
> SwapFree: 245036 kB
> Dirty: 0 kB
> Writeback: 0 kB
> AnonPages: 2296 kB
> Mapped: 1824 kB
> Shmem: 80 kB
> Slab: 2452 kB
> SReclaimable: 1116 kB
> SUnreclaim: 1336 kB
> KernelStack: 192 kB
> PageTables: 556 kB
> NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
> Bounce: 0 kB
> WritebackTmp: 0 kB
> CommitLimit: 389876 kB
> Committed_AS: 238412 kB
> VmallocTotal: 3788784 kB
> VmallocUsed: 68 kB
> VmallocChunk: 3788716 kB
>
> What could cause this issue?
> I'm not sure whether this is UML specific or not.
> Maybe only UML is able to trigger the issue...
>
> Thanks,
> //richard



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