swap

[Pietro Cerutti]

On 9/24/06, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> Once the kernel decides to swap a page, that area of swap is reserved
> until the process exits, even if the kernel pulls the data back from
> swap.  That way if memory gets low again, the kernel knows it can
> quickly discard the in-RAM copy of the data (since there's already a
> copy in swap).

Thanx for the insight...

> --
>         Dan Nelson
>         dnelson at allantgroup.com
>


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