Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:28:30 +0200 From: "Pietro Cerutti" <pietro.cerutti@gmail.com> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: swap Message-ID: <e572718c0609241328v20f75f8eh2839c48f3af1c3ad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060924194450.GD73717@dan.emsphone.com> References: <e572718c0609241229w5c7439e4mb58ca4f51e252437@mail.gmail.com> <20060924194450.GD73717@dan.emsphone.com>
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On 9/24/06, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> wrote: > Once the kernel decides to swap a page, that area of swap is reserved > until the process exits, even if the kernel pulls the data back from > swap. That way if memory gets low again, the kernel knows it can > quickly discard the in-RAM copy of the data (since there's already a > copy in swap). Thanx for the insight... > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > -- Pietro Cerutti ICQ: 117293691 PGP: 0x9571F78E - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org
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