Re: swap/memory patches

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@e-mind.com)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:20:40 +0200 (CEST)


On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Rik van Riel wrote:

>> (1) cow-swapin: I often observed that after compiling a large C++ program
>> (which needs some swap), the shell keeps swapping something in on every
>> <Enter> keypress. This is cured by swapoff -a; swapon -a.
>> If I correctly understood, this is what cow-swapin was supposed to cure.
>
>Wasn't this fixed -- Andrea, Stephen?

Just fixed in Linus's tree.

Andrea Arcangeli

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