Am 03. Dez, 2009 schwätzte Bob Elzer so:

> Swap is basically hard drive space used so that when your computer wants to
> do something in memory and it doesn't have enough space left, it will
> suspend and copy some running programs to the swap disk, it doesn't use
> regular file system for speed, so it writes big nice even block sizes to the
> disk.

The kernel suspends programs and copies them to swap? I believe it does
not suspend them. Is there something I don't know about?

The kernel will move under certain circumstances to aggressively copy data
to swap, but I believe the programs are still running and if they access
pages the data can be copied back out of swap into memory.

ciao,

der.hans
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