On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 05:51:53PM -0500, Matt Herzog wrote:
> [...]
> was eating much ram and cpu. Killing it was easy, but 21 MB of swap remain
> in use (doing what?) twelve hours later. If I had been running procfs, might 

Pages pushed to swap are pages which have not been used in a long time.
They remain in swap even with plenty of free RAM, until something needs them.

The fact that the system didn't need them in twelve hours shows that the VM
system does a good job :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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