Clear the computer's memory?

[Tony Arnold]

Ken Rune Helland wrote:

>>Nope. Even if I leave it alone for a few seconds after closing VMWare
>>(or whatever), it will not think of reloading the other apps from swap
>>by itself, that's the problem...
>>
> 
> 
> It will not reload from swap simply because memory is free, it will
> reload when the applications/prosseses are actively accessing that memory.

Which is what I was trying to say! And again, it Linux's paging system
that causes the return to memory. Process in swap starts to run, first
instruction is not in memory, so it causes a page fault, paging system
bring required page (and usually a few others) back into memory, process
resumes running. The exact same procedure is followed when a new process
/program starts to run.

Regards,
Tony.
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