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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:06:21 -0300 (BRT)
From: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
To: Tom Vier <tmv5@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac17
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On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Tom Vier wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:06:42AM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > It's not actually swapping unless you see IO (si/so).  It's allocating
> > swap space, but won't send pages out to disk unless there's demand. One
> 
> if it's pre-allocation, why does it show up as "used"? 
> "reserved" would be a better fit.

You're right. Its just that nobody fixed the code yet.