[CentOS] Swap memory: I can't reconcile this stuff.

[Kai Schaetzl]

Les Mikesell wrote on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 21:29:52 -0500:

> It's paged on demand.  Instead of thinking about memory being 
> swapped out, think about it never being read from disk into 
> memory until the memory that is supposed to hold it is accessed.

"never being read from disk" implies that there was something written to 
the disk first. In that case the swap usage figure from top or free would 
be wrong, wouldn't it?

Kai

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