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From: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: Swap
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In article <20011118230540.A2042@werewolf.able.es> you wrote:
>>Yep. There's a reason for that: the kernel is *ALWAYS* able to swap pages out 
>>to disk - even without "swap space". Disabling swapspace simply forces the 
>>kernel to swap out more code, since it cannot swap out any data.
>>

> Sure ??? Where ?? What disk space uses it to swap pages to ?

It does not swap code pages out. It simply forgets them and reloads ("page
them in") them when needed.

Greeetings
Bernd
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