RE: About the need of a swap area

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Sun, 28 Jul 2002 16:29:29 -0300 (BRT)


On 28 Jul 2002, Ed Sweetman wrote:

> If you bother to do any real tests you'd see that linux will swap when
> nothing is going on and this doesn't hinder anything.

Linux only puts pages in swap when it's low on free physical memory.

regards,

Rik

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