Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: memory crash | Date | Wed, 11 Dec 1996 23:15:27 +0000 (GMT) |
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> this. When a process is allocated memory, the initial memory comes from > a pool of shared zero-filled pages. These pages don't actually get > owned by a specific process until a process actually writes to one.
So does linux
> because real memory is getting scarce. At this time, the modified page > writer copies the oldest and least-used pages to disk. The real memory, > thus freed, is then zero-filled and put back into the pool. This process > continues.
This is the wrong answer - it should be least regularly use
> time, are swapped out entirely except for the process header. This > frees more memory.
See the kernel kswapd threads too
Alan
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