On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:28:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/29/08 22:04, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:06:25AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 04/24/08 10:09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>> On 04/24/08 01:34, Rich Healey wrote: > >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paging > >> I use "swap" in the generic sense, but really mean "page". Does > >> Linux even *do* process swapping? > > > > I've never seen Linux swap out idle processes. > > I'm surprised. Seems to me that an idle process and it's allocated > memory would be the *perfect* candidates to be swapped out. And > anthropomorphized vm systems might say, "I need RAM, and you're > 5,000 pages are the least recently used, so I'll just push you on > out to disk to make room for actively used data."
Sure it would make sense; other Unix's do, but I've never seen Linux swap out, e.g. idle gettys or bash, or even idle exim4s (which would make sense for a dial-up box that only uses exim during daily email checks and cron runs). Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
