Re: Swap reclaiming

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sun Aug 26 2001 - 14:00:28 EST


On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:

        [snip swap full code]

> Hmm... This kind-of defeats purposes on swap priorities: with this,
> you are going to fill slow swap even through there is lots of fast
> swap that could be reclaimed.

When swap fills up, we will start freeing swap space on swapin.

This means that we'll free up space in both fast and slow swap.

> I'm not sure what fix should be.

I'm not sure what the problem would be ;)

(but would love a more detailed explanation if you
really have found a problem)

regards,

Rik

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