No, you're probably right, I stated it incorrectly. But I think we would overwhelm our new question asker, it we started to get into swapping strategies. lol
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of der.hans Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:52 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: RE: FLASH disk as swap 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 -- # http://www.LuftHans.com/Classes http://www.TwoGeekTechs.com/ # Director of Engineering, FonWallet Transaction Solutions, Inc. # ... make it clear I support "Free Software" and not "Open Source", # and don't imply I agree that there is such a thing as a # "Linux operating system". - rms --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
