Hi, Le Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:06:03 +0200, "Devvrat Tripathi" <tripathidevvrat@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > I have one more question. I got how the kernel activates the swap > area but how does it decide when to actually start transferring data > to that area. and when to stop or revert back. Also what does it do > for writing the data to the swap space from the main memory. I mean > the method called for doing this transfer. You can read http://www.skynet.ie/~mel/projects/vm/guide/pdf/understand.pdf, starting at page 150 to learn more about how swapping works. Of course, the whole book is worth reading if you're interested how virtual memory works in the Linux kernel. Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni - thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx http://{thomas,sos,kos}.enix.org - http://www.toulibre.org http://www.{livret,agenda}dulibre.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
