linux-kernel - Re: Issues when running without swap

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Date:	Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:00:20 +0200
From:	Bernie Innocenti <bernie@...ewiz.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	systems <systems@...ts.sugarlabs.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Issues when running without swap

On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:54:03 +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> You also told me that this machine had no swap enabled, which is an
> unusual configuration and restricts the ability of the VM to defragment
> memory.  I would recommend adding a small swap file/partition.  However:

Is this behavior documented anywhere? If not, can you point me at the vm
code which implies page defragmentation through swap?

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   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
 \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/

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