Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:18:18 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] free swap space of (re)activated pages |
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On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:31:19 -0500 Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> the attached patch frees the swap space of already resident pages > when swap space starts getting tight, instead of only freeing up > the swap space taken up by newly swapped in pages. > > This should result in the swap space of pages that remain resident > in memory being freed, allowing kswapd more chances to actually swap > a page out (instead of rotating it back onto the active list).
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