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Many more words on volatile ranges

Many more words on volatile ranges

Posted Nov 5, 2012 20:10 UTC (Mon) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)
Parent article: Many more words on volatile ranges

How about using swap heuristics when deciding which volatile pages to drop: if the volatile page would be swapped, drop it instead? That is assuming these volatile pages can't be swapped in the first place? If they can, then I am not sure how to drop them once they are in swap?


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