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For all practical purposes, swap is user-agnostic.  It's a mechanism
that the kernel uses based on the memory consumption of all processes,
regardless of owner.  

When I worked briefly with a Linux Terminal Server Project rig, I
noticed that workstations could run different instances of the same app
and each instance took up just a small increment of memory beyond that
of the first one.

- Jeff

On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 21:43, John Mills wrote:
> Usage Gurus -
> 
> Is swap space shared between users? If so, should one allow more swap when
> expecting to support a number of users compared to only one or two at a
> time? I suppose it doesn't scale simply with user count because a _lot_ of
> processes run the same number of instances regardless of the number of
> users, but should there be some allowance?
> 
> TIA for any comments.
> 
>  - John Mills
>    john.m.mills at alum.mit.edu
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