Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:41:55 +0100 | From | DervishD <> | Subject | Re: Memory, where's it going? |
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Hi Tommy :)
* Tommy Reynolds <Tommy.Reynolds@MegaCoder.com> dixit: > Uttered DervishD <lkml@dervishd.net>, spake thus: > > > I understand the concept and why things are cached, i've just never > > > seen it cache this much before.. > > Swap memory is not used just when the machine has no free memory. > > Although this is a rough explanation and doesn't describe exactly the > > swap mechanism, some apps will remain into swap space even if there's > > plenty of free RAM available, as long as they are not used. [...] > It is not apps that are being evicted from main memory, only some > of their pages.
That's why I told "rough explanation" ;) I didn't want to go into details, although I did anyway...
Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado
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