Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 10 Aug 1997 18:13:10 +0200 | | From | Martin Mares <> | | Subject | Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux |
| |
Hi,
> [1] FreeBSD uses a "Zone allocator" for kernel memory allocation. > NetBSD - I am not so sure. > Linux - Buddy system.
Linux 2.1 uses SLAB allocator.
> [3] Can any of these systems have > a) swap files rather than partitions
Linux supports both swap files and partitiona.
> b) dynamically growing swap space? > As far as I can make out, the answeris no!
Linux doesn't support growing swap files, but does support adding more swap files / partitions whenever needed (see swapd(8)).
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "Press any key to quit or any other key to continue"
|  |