FLASH disk as swap

[Bob Elzer]

No, you're probably right, I stated it incorrectly.

But I think we would overwhelm our new question asker, it we started to get
into swapping strategies. lol
 

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Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:52 AM
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Subject: RE: FLASH disk as swap

Am 03. Dez, 2009 schwätzte Bob Elzer so:

> Swap is basically hard drive space used so that when your computer 
> wants to do something in memory and it doesn't have enough space left, 
> it will suspend and copy some running programs to the swap disk, it 
> doesn't use regular file system for speed, so it writes big nice even 
> block sizes to the disk.

The kernel suspends programs and copies them to swap? I believe it does not
suspend them. Is there something I don't know about?

The kernel will move under certain circumstances to aggressively copy data
to swap, but I believe the programs are still running and if they access
pages the data can be copied back out of swap into memory.

ciao,

der.hans
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