Re: excessive swap-in time

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:09:26 -0000 ellis@xxxxxxx wrote:
| In article <fri1to01vjo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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|>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?

It is a tight system. The big question is, how well does the kernel do
to be sure that when it picks something to swap out, that it avoids the
pages of the process it is currently making active.

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