-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/29/08 22:04, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:06:25AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/24/08 10:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>>> On 04/24/08 01:34, Rich Healey wrote: > > >>> An improvement to swapping: >>> >>> http://ck.wikia.com/wiki/SwapPrefetch >> Is this in the mainline? >> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging >> I use "swap" in the generic sense, but really mean "page". Does >> Linux even *do* process swapping? > > I've never seen Linux swap out idle processes.
I'm surprised. Seems to me that an idle process and it's allocated memory would be the *perfect* candidates to be swapped out. And anthropomorphized vm systems might say, "I need RAM, and you're 5,000 pages are the least recently used, so I'll just push you on out to disk to make room for actively used data." - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIF+d1S9HxQb37XmcRAkYqAJ46rZMplUHpJoEG1sn8O3uwFPKYQgCeOQcd 0xK6oEy53dcVeIENzNuS2cY= =z4ZC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
