Christophe
On ven, 16 mar 2001 00:26:35 Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, christophe barbe wrote:
>
> > Please Rik, could you explain what you mean with "reclaim swap
> > space when we run out". In my (limited) understanding, when
> > there's no more free memory (ram and swap space), the kernel
> > starts to kill process (and the choice is a difficult point).
> > Are you proposing to add an API to reclaim swap instead of
> > killing process ?
>
> When we swap something in from swap, it is in effect "duplicated"
> in memory and swap. Freeing the swap space of these duplicates
> will mean we have, effectively, more swap space.
>
> Rik
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