Depends. I have 127 processes running. About 25 will be in the "working
set". That leaves 100 processes whose task structure/kernel stack
could be swapped (maybe just a few things need to be kept in memory).
That yields about 800k swappable memory that now isn't. But that
didn't get allocated using kmalloc did it? On the other hand, I still
haven't seen my machine use swap when I didn't force it to. I think
it should swap out the pages that haven't been touched for over half
an hour (Those should get a lower priority than new cache or buffer
pages).....
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