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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] eliminate nswap and cnswap
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:56:55 -0400
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Albert Cahalan wrote:
>>The nswap and cnswap variables counters have never
>>been incremented as Linux doesn't do task swapping.
> 
> 
> I'm pretty sure they were used for paging activity.
> We don't eliminate support for "swap space", do we?
> 
> Somebody must have broken nswap and cnswap while
> hacking on some vm code. I hate to see the variables
> get completely ripped out of the kernel instead of
> getting fixed.

Since Linux doesn't swap, "fixed" would mean returning zero for these 
values. I don't thing even BSD swaps anymore, does it? In any case, 
Linux never did.

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    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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