[Gllug] Swap Restrictions

[Rich Walker]

Christian Smith <csmith at micromuse.com> writes:

>
> The swap file is used in Linux (and Solaris, and HP-UX, and AIX ...) for
> anonymous data only. As such, only anonymous data like heaps, stacks and
> shared memory segments will compete for swap, and if you have an anonymous
> memory usage of anywhere near 2x RAM, then your machine is too overloaded.

And for tmpfs.

Very handy for tmpfs.

cheers, Rich.

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