Re: swapping

[Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>]

commence  Franz Reinhardt quotation:

> On Sunday, 3. November 2002 03:09, you wrote:
>> On 2 Nov 2002, Nishant Sharma wrote:
>> > pages only under memory pressure. If the mem
>> > consumption is less than the onboard ram then i suppose
>> > no swapping should take place. Am i right here ???
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> > What will be the scenario like if i dont specify a swap
>> > device at all ?
>>
>> The system will reclaim file-backed cache memory.
>
> Does it mean it takes a file (i.e. somewhere in /tmp ) for swapping ?

No, I believe it means that the kernel will look for pages that cache
file data and start throwing away the "eligible" ones.  I don't know
*exactly* what happens with dirty (modified) pages, but they would
obviously be written to disk before being reclaimed.

> What can I do to stop swapping at all ?

Simply don't perform a swapon.

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