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SubjectRe: Unfreed kernel buffers (fsck and 2.3.99-pre*)
On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 12:08:29AM -0700, Craig Kulesa wrote:

> So... is it better to release swapped pages immediately, or only upon
> "demand"? I would have naively guessed the former, but maybe I'm
> missing a crucial point.

My natural reaction would be "on demand"; you would want to avoid the huge
wodge of I/O needed to read them back in. But if your system is idle then
maybe it would be an idea to trickle the pages back in to core gradually when
there is no memory pressure..

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