Re: Slow swapon for big (12GB) swap

[Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net> wrote:
> > I am using big swap here (as a backing for potentially huge tmpfs). And I
> >  wonder why swapon on such big (like 12GB) swap takes about 7 minutes
> >  (continuous disk IO).
>
> It's a bit quicker here:
>
> vmm:/usr/src/25# mkswap /dev/hda6
> Setting up swapspace version 1, size = 54031826 kB
> vmm:/usr/src/25# time swapon /dev/hda6
> swapon /dev/hda6  0.00s user 0.04s system 74% cpu 0.054 total
>
>
> > Is this expected?
>
> Nope.
>
> > Why it is like that?
>
> Are you using a swapfile or a swap partition?

Swap file.


> If it's a swapfile then perhaps the filesystem is being inefficient in its
> bmap() function.  Which filesystem is it?

Ext3.

The kernel is 2.6.16-rc3-git2-ck1. There is -ck patch in it but I strongly 
hope that swap prefetch is not *that* buggy to cause such things... I am 
considering testing vanilla. Con CC'd.

The system is Athlon XP 2000MHz with 1GB of RAM and Samsung 80GB IDE hard 
drive.

The second run of swapon is very fast (like 2 seconds). So it looks like 
it has cached something in RAM?...


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski

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