On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:13:01 +0800 "Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ok, in the 2nd paragraph, there is a mention of one hour. Is this > the answer? No. There is no actual time interval involved. If the page has not been accessed by the time it reaches the end of the inactive list, it will be reclaimed. How long it takes to reach the end of the inactive list depends on how large that list is and how fast pages are being scanned, which in turn depends on how fast memory is being allocated for other things. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ