Re: Is there a limitation on swap parition size linux can use?
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 01:21:43PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> I'd also note that if you watch the performance of memory and swap files
> in gtop, both in RAM and in the swap, on a busy machine Linux apparently
> compresses inactive data and code requirements - I've seen my box with
> 1/2 GiB RAM and 1/2 GiB swap reporting nearly 8 GiB RAM and 3 GiB swap
> in use.
Shared libraries. Copy-on-write. I seriously doubt that data
compression is going on, just a refusal to load a second copy of the
same data into memory unless absolutely necessary.
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