Re: Is swap == 2 * RAM a permanent thing?

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On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Mike Harrold wrote:

> 1) If a process uses swap space and then later (after being paged
> into memory -- or even not) it completes, is killed, etc., is
> the swap space reclaimed then?
>
> 2) If a process uses swap, is paged into memory, and is then swapped
> out again, does it re-use the same swap as before?

Yes and yes.

Rik

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