Re: Is there a way to force suspended process's memory to swap space?

Mingliang wrote:

> For example, my process continuously consumes 30MB memory.
> $ ps aux|grep job
> joe      17941  0.0  0.3 33104 31096 pts/16  S    15:50   0:00 ./job 30
>                                            ^^^^^^^
> 
> Now I stop it
> $kill -STOP  17941
> [1]+  Stopped                 ./job 30
> 
> $ ps aux|grep job
> joe      17941  0.0  0.3 33104 31096 pts/16  T    15:50   0:00 ./job 30
> 
> So it doesn't consume CPU time any more, BUT is there also a way to
> swap out the 30MB memory?
> Can it be accomplished manually (some signal, maybe?) or is it only
> the kernel who can make decision?

You can't force it to be swapped out.

If it's suspended long enough, it will get swapped out eventually.

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Glynn Clements <[email protected]>