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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 21:47:12 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Mike Harrold <mharrold@cas.org>
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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.

Rik
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