Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:42:11 +0200 (CEST) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: strange VM and swap behavior ? |
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On 31 Aug 1999, Marc Lefranc wrote:
>The only thing I have still difficulties with is the fact that after >terminating xanim, a high amount of swap space remains used:
The swap cache will be shrunk when necessary. We could remove the not-shared swapcache if we would do so, but we choosed to do things on demand and to have less code into the kernel.
>larger swap space than for the previous kernel generation ? Indeed, we >can arrive at a situation where all running processes will have pages >with copies in the on-disk swap space and in the swap cache. If I'm
At that time the swap-cache pages will be unmapped and the pte will be filled with the swap-entry infomation.
Andrea
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