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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
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Subject: Re: dynamic allocation of swap disk space
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> thrash without filling up swap space.  It is true that systems can thrash AND 
> fill up swap space, but it is not always so.

However the system will also thrash if you have inactive dirty pages without
file backing taking up to much main memory. Albeit it is more a theoretical
possibilty.

	Regards
		Oliver