Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Fri, 8 Jun 2001 19:38:06 +0000


Hi!

> But if the page in memory is 'dirty', you can't be efficient with swapping
> *in* the page. The page on disk is invalid and should be released, or am I
> missing something?

Yes. You are missing fragmentation. This keeps it low.
Pavel

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