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On 08/19/2010 10:22 PM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Gregory Hosler wrote:
>
>> If the memory gets fragged and the kernel wants to defrag, e.g. for a memory
>> request from an application, in order to defrag any "dirty" data portions (those
>> pages that have been written to), the kernel *requires* there to be swap.
>> Otherwise there is no place to write the dirty pages out, in order to read them
>> in elsewhere.
>
> I didn't realize that memory could get fragged.
> I'd thought that one reason for virtual memory
> was allowing pages to be renumbered at will,
> the kernel's will, of course.
virtually memory, yes. physical memory no.
:-)
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