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Subject: Re: 2.2-stable swap usage? 
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Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 23:14:21 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> 
> The simple answer is that once swap is allocated to a process, it is 
> never freed.  You have, in the case above, 24M worth of text which at 
> some stage has been swapped out, and thus has had swap allocated to it. 
> It doesn't mean you have 24M worth of swap currently "in use".

Sorry, that should be "pages ... have", not "text ... has".  

mike