Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:30:05 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Large memory question |
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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
>Would I be right in thinking that your large memory work >could conceivably extend to allowing a non large-mem box >to have RAM + swap > virtual address space?
How the swap works is not changed. The swap continue to work in the same way. When we are low on memory we move user memory to disk. So you was just allowed to use a very large swap space (you don't need large memory support for that). The point of the large memroy support is to avoid going into swap after you allocated 1g of ram.
Andrea
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