Re: excessive swap-in time

From: ellis@xxxxxxx ()
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:09:26 -0000

In article <fri1to01vjo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Each swapped out page should only need to be swapped back in
just once, if this is the only active process.

Yes, but swapping in a page may mean swapping out others to
make room. How tight is memory on that system?

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