Re: kswapd

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On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 12:29:23PM -0600, Collins, Tom wrote:
> I have a question about kswapd.  Will kswapd reap available pages
> that are clean (i.e. pages read by the fs and not modified in any
> way, nor locked) if there is no room left in the swap file?

Tom, it is my understanding that kswapd works as you have described,
though it may not wait for there to be no room left in swap.

I got my information from:
http://www.linux-mm.org/wiki/moin.cgi/MmGlossary

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