On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, lattera wrote:

> so that memory is being used, no other process, when calling mmap() or
> brk(), can re-use it? what happens, then, when all my swap is filled?
> do I have to reboot my machine every thirty days?

Of course they can re-use it. The disk cache can release back memory
claimed, if someone else needs it more and the disk cache are using more
than it's own lot.
And disk cache is never migrated to swap. That would be really silly.

	Johnny

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