You missed the context: this is what would happen without swap-overcommit,
so every active page of memory has to have swap allocated for it at the same
time.
And this is why Linux and most other modern OSes use swap-overcommit.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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