On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Gregory Hosler wrote: > If the memory gets fragged and the kernel wants to defrag, e.g. for a memory > request from an application, in order to defrag any "dirty" data portions > (those > pages that have been written to), the kernel *requires* there to be swap. > Otherwise there is no place to write the dirty pages out, in order to read > them > in elsewhere.
I didn't realize that memory could get fragged. I'd thought that one reason for virtual memory was allowing pages to be renumbered at will, the kernel's will, of course. -- Michael henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu "Pessimist: The glass is half empty. Optimist: The glass is half full. Engineer: The glass is twice as big as it needs to be." -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
