| ▲ | tux3 10 hours ago | |||||||
Followup quizz: A file is held open read only by a process, and then you delete the file. Under memory pressure and without swap, can Linux evict those pages to reclaim memory? | ||||||||
| ▲ | ButlerianJihad 9 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
The file's blocks exist in the filesystem. "Those pages" just refers to the ordinary buffer cache for any other disk-based file. No cached pages are necessary to hold open a file on disk. | ||||||||
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