Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:47:12 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Is swap == 2 * RAM a permanent thing? |
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Mike Harrold wrote:
> 1) If a process uses swap space and then later (after being paged > into memory -- or even not) it completes, is killed, etc., is > the swap space reclaimed then? > > 2) If a process uses swap, is paged into memory, and is then swapped > out again, does it re-use the same swap as before?
Yes and yes.
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