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Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 16:29:29 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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Subject: RE: About the need of a swap area
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On 28 Jul 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote:

> If you bother to do any real tests you'd see that linux will swap when
> nothing is going on and this doesn't hinder anything.

Linux only puts pages in swap when it's low on free physical memory.

regards,

Rik
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