Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:14:58 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple swap question Message-ID: <200812181114.58652.kirk@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <494A820E.2030907@optiksecurite.com> References: <494A693A.5050204@optiksecurite.com> <20081218163632.GE5150@torus.slightlystrange.org> <494A820E.2030907@optiksecurite.com>
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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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