Simple swap question

Kirk Strauser kirk at strauser.com
Thu Dec 18 17:15:06 UTC 2008


On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:02:06 FreeBSD wrote:

> Thanks for your answer. I'm asking here because it's been several days
> and there is still used swap for data that should never be used anymore.
> If the kernel wants to keep it, why not move it to RAM now that there is
> some free?

Do you *know* that it hadn't copied it back to RAM, leaving a copy in swap in 
case it needs that RAM suddenly?  Really, the OS is better at this than we 
are.
-- 
Kirk Strauser


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