[DGD] swapping

[Felix A. Croes]

"Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com> wrote:

> Hello:
> Is there any documentation on how swapping works?
> I presume that sectors are just chunks of memory that hold objects)?
> So that when you decide to swap old objects out, they just get mapped
> to those sectors and there's a table somewhere that stores all of
> this? Are objects just handled on an LRU tree as they're created?

All that is documented is in dgd/lpc-doc/Introduction, specifically
see:

    swap_file
    swap_size
    sector_size
    swap_fragment

Other than that, swapping just works.  There is no way to detect
whether an object is swapped out, and there is no difference in
behaviour.

Regards,
Felix Croes