Re: About the need of a swap area

DervishD (raul@pleyades.net)
Sun, 28 Jul 2002 13:04:51 +0200


Hi Ville :)

>> Yes, that makes sense, obviously. My question is more: when an
>> inactive page will be swapped out? Only when there is no more RAM
>> left?
>No, it is smarter than that.

Well, I supposed it ;) Then I will reduce my swap area size
(since it's mostly unused) and will go with it :)

>> How to configure it?
>Through the tunables in /proc/sys/vm/.

Ok, thanks :))

Raśl
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