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On So 21-01-06 21:08:41, Al Boldi wrote: > A long time ago, when i was a kid, I had dream. It went like this: > > I am waking up in the twenty-first century and start my computer. > After completing the boot sequence, I start top to find that my memory is > equal to total disk-capacity. What's more, there is no more swap. > Apps are executed inplace, as if already loaded. > Physical RAM is used to cache slower storage RAM, much the same as the CPU > cache RAM caches slower physical RAM. ...and then you try to execute mozilla in place, and your dream slowly turns into nightmare, as letters start to appear, pixel by pixel... [swap is backing store for anonymous memory. Think about it. You need swap as long as you support malloc. You could always provide filename with malloc, but hey, that starts to look like IBM mainframe. Plus ability to powercycle the machine and *have* it boot (not continue where it left) is lifesaver.] Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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