Am 03. Dez, 2009 schwätzte Bob Elzer so:
Swap is basically hard drive space used so that when your computer wants to
do something in memory and it doesn't have enough space left, it will
suspend and copy some running programs to the swap disk, it doesn't use
regular file system for speed, so it writes big nice even block sizes to the
disk.
The kernel suspends programs and copies them to swap? I believe it does
not suspend them. Is there something I don't know about?
The kernel will move under certain circumstances to aggressively copy data
to swap, but I believe the programs are still running and if they access
pages the data can be copied back out of swap into memory.
ciao,
der.hans
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