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From: "aleix sanchis ramírez" <aleixsanchis@hotmail.com>
To: Sumit Kumar <sumit686215@gmail.com>,
	"kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org"
	<kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: RE: transfer physical memory page to swap disk
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 12:42:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM7PR08MB541576DA0F4535FB686E9CB7DB370@AM7PR08MB5415.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACFOd6VGhvQ=EfDZyNwP_j-+u51MtwXrvsKnTgXQ0oYXKzKZtQ@mail.gmail.com>


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> Hi,
>Does C/C++ provide any API / system call that enables user to force the application to transfer some its physical pages to swap disk ? If so, is it also possible to obtain the least used page using some API ?

I don't think such a system call exists. There might be some mechanisms that may cause your memory to be swapped out as a side effect, but I doubt you have much control over which page gets swapped.

> AFAIK, linux kernel is supposed to do this as part of memory management. I want to know if the kernel also exposes some API to enable users to control their application's memory management. I have many applications running at a time that cause too much memory consumption. I believe that experimenting with memory management can help.

I really don't think this kind of management can, or should, be done from user-space. If you have too much memory consumption, try to increase system memory or optimize your applications.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-01-15 12:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-15 12:31 transfer physical memory page to swap disk Sumit Kumar
2020-01-15 12:42 ` aleix sanchis ramírez [this message]
2020-01-15 12:53 ` Anupam Kapoor
2020-01-18 15:10   ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-01-19 10:01     ` Sumit Kumar
2020-01-19 10:55     ` Anupam Kapoor
2020-01-19 11:14       ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-01-19 12:45         ` Anupam Kapoor
2020-01-19 13:18           ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-01-19 16:01             ` Anupam Kapoor
2020-01-19 16:59 ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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