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Subject: RE: About the need of a swap area
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Buddy Lumpkin <b.lumpkin@attbi.com>
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On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 23:22, Buddy Lumpkin wrote:
> I thought linux worked more like Solaris where it didn't use any swap (AT
> ALL) until it has to... At least, I hope linux works this way.

I'd be suprised if Solaris did something that dumb.

You want to push out old long unaccessed pages of code to make room for
more cached disk blocks from files.

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