hi there,
On Monday 30 December 2002 15:14, you wrote:
Happy new year to all....
I have almost the same problem,
more in depth explanation from all the great masters will be appreciated
What happens in some memory management algorithms is that even if the dirty buffers (bufferes which are modified in the RAM) are written to the HDD the RAM is not freed. So if a process again wants the same page (memory
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To just verify that swap space is working (dont you trust Linus) what you probably can do is that start approx 20 instances of mozilla (approx 15*20 = 300MB RAM) or a VMware session and ask it to use 80% of the existing RAm,
20 processes of mozilla wont take up 20*15 MB of ram. How do i know ? well i tried it. its about 46 MB. I guess the majority of the space is taken up by the code, so its reusable.
Ripunjay Bararia
rahul