Hi, For example, my process continuously consumes 30MB memory. $ ps aux|grep job joe 17941 0.0 0.3 33104 31096 pts/16 S 15:50 0:00 ./job 30 ^^^^^^^ Now I stop it $kill -STOP 17941 [1]+ Stopped ./job 30 $ ps aux|grep job joe 17941 0.0 0.3 33104 31096 pts/16 T 15:50 0:00 ./job 30 So it doesn't consume CPU time any more, BUT is there also a way to swap out the 30MB memory? Can it be accomplished manually (some signal, maybe?) or is it only the kernel who can make decision? Any of your suggestion is much appreciated. Regards, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html