Re: Memory, swap, and limits

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
> 	OK; but then there's something else I don't know, or don't 
> understand. Does a Fedora machine do any swapping while it has memory 
> left? I didn't think I had (or needed) any control at all over swapping, 
> beyond choosing how much space to afford it.
What I have seen is that when the system needs memory, it will swap 
out idle programs, and it will leave them swapped out until they are 
needed again. (This is a somewhat simplified explanation...) It will 
even use freed memory for thing like disk cache instead of swapping 
the programs back in.

Mikkel
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