Tony Summers writes:

>For example, I might have a program that has a very large data stack, but
>it only runs very occasionally.  Once the program has run, I don't need
>(or want) to wait for MPE to decide that any pages allocated to memory can
>be swapped out !

Once the program is no longer running, the pages used by the stack are
marked as free and will be reused. They're not "swapped out" since
there's nothing in them that'll be used again.

-- Bruce


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