Re: Using swap though there's plenty of mem free

[Lubomir Sedlacik <salo%Xtrmntr.org@localhost>]

On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 06:35:02PM +0200, Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> > At one time, the system ran out of RAM and had to push some pages to
> > the swap partition. Then some RAM got freed, but the pages that have
> > been pushed to ram have not been used since then.
> 
> It would be nice to have an option to read them from swap and put them
> in RAM again then :).

Paging in is not free.  Unless the pages are needed it is wasted time,
you may never need the contents of the pages again.


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