Thanks a lot for your responses Aleix, Anupam and Valdis. -- Thanks and Regards, Sumit
On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 20:40, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:23:05 +0530, Anupam Kapoor said: > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 at 6:02 PM Sumit Kumar <sumit686...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Does C/C++ provide any API / system call that enables user to force the > > > application to transfer some its physical pages to swap disk ? If so, > is it > > > also possible to obtain the least used page using some API ? > > would madvise not serve your needs ? > > There's this word "force" in the question. > > The problem is that madvise() is *advice* to the kernel, not a strict > guarantee. There's a difference between "If you need to move pages > to disk, consider these pages first" and "Move them to disk now, whether > you really wanted to or not". > >
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