> Moreover, when swap is of, the hard disk
> goes crazy as if it where using swap, when in fact it isn't). Is this
> expected behaviour ?

Yes, it's recovering memory by dropping program text pages (memory 
mapped from elf files) so those have to be reloaded when the program 
executes them again.

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Daniel
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