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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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On Sat, 4 Feb 2006, yipee wrote:
> Hugh Dickins <hugh <at> veritas.com> writes:
> > I'll assume that when you say "page owned by a user program", you're
> > meaning a private page, not a shared file page mapped into the program.
> > 
> > If you're asking about what currently happens, the answer is "No".
> > 
> > If you're asking about what you can assume, the answer is "Yes".
> 
> So you are saying that the current kernel doesn't move these kind of pages?

If you don't have swap (one of the conditions you gave), yes.

> but it may in future versions?

Yes.
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