Re: Issues when running without swap

From: Bernie Innocenti
Date: Thu Oct 07 2010 - 04:08:33 EST


On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:54:03 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> You also told me that this machine had no swap enabled, which is an
> unusual configuration and restricts the ability of the VM to defragment
> memory. I would recommend adding a small swap file/partition. However:

Is this behavior documented anywhere? If not, can you point me at the vm
code which implies page defragmentation through swap?

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