Why use swap when there is RAM free?

Vincent Arnoux vincent.arnoux at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 19:56:20 UTC 2009


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 16:00, Smoot Carl-Mitchell<smoot at tic.com> wrote:
> It will when the swapped pages are needed again.  There is no reason to
> do the I/O when it is not required.

OK, I had the impression it was smarter to put data back to RAM anyway
as I will for sure need it at one point... Thanks for the
explanations.

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Vincent




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