RW <rwmaillists <at> googlemail.com> writes: > ... > > Yes, there is some confusion about the diff, if any, between paging > > and swapping. > > > > Paging - copying or moving pages between physical memory (RAM) and > > secondary storage (e.g. hard disk), in both directions. > > Swapping - nowdays is synonymous with "paging". > > But its history is as follows (per Wikipedia): > > This is a bit Linux-centric. > ... > You page-out pages and swap-out processes. > > When FreeBSD is very short of memory it swaps-out entire processes to > concentrate the memory in the running processes. Linux goes directly > from paging to killing processes.
That was helpful - knowing the details of VMM implementation in various OSs helps understand the generalizations, with exceptions ... jb _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
