Re: swap size for 2gb 2 processors?


Jean-David Beyer wrote:
ray wrote:
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:58:21 -0900, Floyd L. Davidson wrote:

Current versions of UNIX and AFAIK all versions of Linux do not swap at all;
they page; i.e., they write out the least recently used pages in an attempt
to keep just the working set in memory.

They do actually swap -- or at least in the sense that a process
may be *completly* paged-out (have no pages in memory).

If you look at the output from 'top' (and with 'ps -Af'), you may see
some process-names surrounded by a pair of [...]

=> root 20778 5 0 Dec20 ? 00:00:00 [pdflush]

Such processes are *copmpletly* paged out to disk, and currently
have no piece of them in RAM.

-Koppe

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