Re: Why would top show the processes are using swap when there is no swap space?



On 23 Mar 2007 11:31:10 -0700, jinzishuai@xxxxxxxxx
<jinzishuai@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
But if it is as described "swapped out", then deleting the binary file
on disk would make the swap in impossible and thus I got a crash.
Thank you very much.

No, remember how "delete" works in Unix-like operating systems. As long
as a file is open, it is only removed from the directory.


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