On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:59:35PM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote:
> Are you sure? That's what I tought at first but now I'm not so sure.
> Dirty filesystem pages will not be swapped (that won't make any sense).

Well if an application can't swap in to finish its job, it might leave a
file corrupted.

> ... and to make more RAM available by getting rid of unused-but-dirty
> pages.

Unless there is something that ram is needed for there is no point
swapping things out.  Windows may not belive that, but linux at least
seems to try and avoid swapping.

Len Sorensen


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