Re: Virtual memory devours my disk (SUMMARY)

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From: Robert Patrick Thille
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 18:18

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[Stuff about how NeXTStep VM Swapfiles grow without bound}

I was talking to Avie at NeXTWorld about this problem, and he said that  
3.0 would have "swapfile compaction".  Now I took that to mean that if a  
process exited that had VM usage below another process in the swapfile,  
the VM above said process would be "moved down" to compact the swapfile.

I do not remember the conversation exactly, but I believe that this would  
happen automatically, but I'm not sure if it would happen all the time, or  
was a process run by cron.

Robert

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Subject: Re: Virtual memory devours my disk (SUMMARY)
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