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0 pointsxena3y ago0 comments

Author here. That server doesn't have swap enabled. It can't be paged out.

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jmillikin3y ago

If the executable is on disk, it can be paged out unless you've used mlock() to tell the kernel to keep it resident.

xenaOP3y ago

Interesting. I've never heard of that happening before. Can you link a reference to where I can find out more about that aspect of the linux memory subsystem?

xani_3y ago

If swap is off there is nowhere to page it out

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