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SubjectRe: strange VM and swap behavior ?
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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