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From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
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Subject: Question about page faults and swap space
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This is probably a dumb question, but it's been a long time since my OS
theory classes.  ;-)

How can I get a page fault if swap space is never used?  Why would anything
be swapped out and yet not appear as usage on the swap partition, since that
never goes away once used?

jm
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