No question on this issue.
Regards the spawned sub process, is there a way to view the tree of the
process, like ptree in solaris? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Muli Ben-Yehuda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 1:29 PM
To: Yahav Biran
Cc: 'Linux-IL'
Subject: Re: swap in Linux

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 01:19:29PM +0200, Yahav Biran wrote:

> [Yahav Biran] I thought that a page can be flush to the disk if nobody is
> using it for certain amount of time. In Solaris a page fault can happen
not
> only when you are lack of memory. Solaris allocate all its free memory to
a
> process buffer.

Ok, I understand the question now. Linux will always use all available
memory, but it might prefer to replace an unused page with a page used
for caching, for example. I don't know off the top of my head if
there's a way to distinguish between the cases of replacing a page by
another process page and replacing it by a cache page. What is the
underline question?

Cheers,
Muli


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