Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2000 21:37:26 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH *] VM patch for 2.4.0-test8 |
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Martin Josefsson wrote: > I've been trying to get my machine to swap but that seems hard with this > new patch :) I have 0kB of swap used after 8h uptime, and I have been > compiling, moving files between partitions and running md5sum on files > (that was a big problem before, everything ended up on the active list and > the swapping started and brought my machine down to a crawl)
No preemptive page-outs?
0kB swap means if you suddenly need a lot of memory, inactive application pages have to be written to disk first. There are always inactive application pages.
Maybe the stats are inaccurate.
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