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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
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Hi!

>     But if the page in memory is 'dirty', you can't be efficient with swapping
> *in* the page.  The page on disk is invalid and should be released, or am I
> missing something?

Yes. You are missing fragmentation. This keeps it low.
								Pavel
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