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From: Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR>
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I believe this should be in the FAQ, shouldn't it?

Terry Lambert said:
> 
> > p.p.s. Why does FreeBSD consume far more swap space than Linux?
> 
> It doesn't.  You might mean "why does my swap seem full?".  If that
> is what you really meant, it's because putting stuff in swap rather
> than discarding it makes it faster to recover than if the pager had
> to go through the file system to pull in clean (unmodified) blocks
> from an executable.
> 
> The actual amount of dirty pages that you can have in core at once
> is not reduced; the clean pages are displaced as necessary.
> 
> (note: the above is from memory; there was some talk of modifying the
> reporting system so as to hide the clean pages as "not present").
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 

Pedro