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Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:28:30 +0200
From: "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: swap
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On 9/24/06, Dan Nelson <dnelson@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@allantgroup.com
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