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From: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
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Subject: Slow swapon for big (12GB) swap
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Hi,

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). Is this expected? Why it is like that? Can I do 
anything to speed it up? Or maybe remove it into the background with low 
priority or something like that?


Thanks in advance,

Grzegorz Kulewski