Subject: Re: Swap used for no reason?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/08/2006 10:55:13
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 04:41:47PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> Is there timeout of when the swap won't be used anymore (and real memory
> will be used again instead)?
>
> Or do I have to wait until that area in swap is used again, so the kernel
> will know to use the physical memory instead?
Why do you care? As soon as the programs that use those pages try
to access them, they will we read into memory. Since that hasn't
happenned already, it may well not happen at all!
David
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