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SubjectRe: question about vm management
but maybe it is better to swap out the processes that are unlikely to run
soon, whilst the buffers kept in the cache are likely to be needed soon?

Tigran

On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Andrew Lagun wrote:

> hello.
> sorry for may be stupid question, but for me it's really interesting.
> for instance if i have 64 mb of ram and 20mb used for buffer
> cache(swap=0), when i try to load netscape instead of decreasing size of
> buffer cache kernel
> begin to use swap. I don't understand what is a reason for not
> decreasing
> size of buffer cache.
> i hope somebody will answer :))
> thank u.
>
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