Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] VM: I have a dream... | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 03 Feb 2006 14:46:05 +0000 |
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On Iau, 2006-02-02 at 21:59 +0300, Al Boldi wrote: > So w/ 1GB RAM, no swap, and 1TB disk mmap'd, could this mmap'd space be added > to the total memory available to the OS, as is done w/ swap?
Yes in theory. It would be harder to manage.
> And if that's possible, why not replace swap w/ mmap'd disk-space?
Swap is just somewhere to stick data that isnt file backed, you could build a swapless mmap based OS but it wouldn't be quite the same as Unix/Linux are.
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