On 9/24/06, Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Once the kernel decides to swap a page, that area of swap is reserved
until the process exits, even if the kernel pulls the data back from
swap. That way if memory gets low again, the kernel knows it can
quickly discard the in-RAM copy of the data (since there's already a
copy in swap).
Thanx for the insight...
--
Dan Nelson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Pietro Cerutti
ICQ: 117293691
PGP: 0x9571F78E
- ASCII Ribbon Campaign -
against HTML e-mail and
proprietary attachments
www.asciiribbon.org
_______________________________________________
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
