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Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 13:55:46 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To: Francisco Reyes <lists@natserv.com>
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Subject: Re: When does swap decreases
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In the last episode (Jun 20), Francisco Reyes said:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > When the system is low on memory, it will force the least used
> > blocks of memory to swap.  It will not free the swap space until
> > the process owning them exits (even if it pages that memory back
> > into RAM), so at some point the system paged out 30MB of memory,
> > some processes exited and freed up 20MB, and you probably have some
> > long-lived processes that account for that remaining 10MB.
> 
> Makes sense.
> Any way to find out which process is using the swap?

None that I know of.  Another one of those "Junior Kernel Hacker"
proejcts :)

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	Dan Nelson
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