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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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Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information.
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| Greg Hosler ghosler(a)redhat.com |
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